US 11,690,559 B2
Method and apparatus for monitoring respiratory distress based on autonomic imbalance
Elizabeth Mary Annoni, White Bear Lake, MN (US); Viktoria A. Averina, Shoreview, MN (US); Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Ramsey, MN (US); and Bryan Allen Clark, Forest Lake, MN (US)
Assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/184,072.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/595,174, filed on Dec. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0167176 A1, Jun. 6, 2019
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/0205 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/352 (2021.01); A61B 5/085 (2006.01); A61B 5/021 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/113 (2006.01); A61B 5/318 (2021.01)
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1. A system for monitoring and treating respiratory distress in a patient, comprising:
a portable device including:
a signal input configured to receive patient condition signals indicative of autonomic balance of the patient;
a signal processing circuit configured to process the patient condition signals and to generate patient condition parameters using the processed patient condition signals, the patient condition parameters indicative of the autonomic balance of the patient; and
a respiratory distress analyzer configured to determine a state of the respiratory distress using the patient condition parameters, the respiratory distress analyzer including a parameter analysis circuit configured to analyze the patient condition parameters for a degree of autonomic imbalance of the patient and to determine a quantitative measure of the state of the respiratory distress using an outcome of the analysis; and
implantable and non-implantable sensors each configured to be communicatively coupled to the portable device and to sense a patient condition signal of the patient condition signals.