CPC A61B 5/4824 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 5/4836 (2013.01); A61B 5/4848 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); G16H 20/70 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61B 2505/07 (2013.01); A61B 2505/09 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method for managing pain of a patient, comprising:
receiving multiple parameters related to the pain;
receiving weighting factors;
generating a quantitative measure of the pain automatically using a processor, the generation including adjusting the weighting factors by automatic adaptation to the patient over time, producing weighted multiple parameters by applying a weighting factor of the adjusted weighting factors to each parameter of the multiple parameters, producing a signal metric using the weighted multiple parameters, and determining the quantitative measure of the pain using the signal metric;
delivering one or more pain-relief therapies using a pain relief device; and
controlling the delivery of the one or more pain-relief therapies based on the quantitative measure of the pain.
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