US 11,883,191 B2
Pneumonia detection in cardiovascular patients
Rezwan Ahmed, Arden Hills, MN (US); Qi An, Shoreview, MN (US); Viktoria A. Averina, Shoreview, MN (US); and Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Woodbury, MN (US)
Assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/329,553.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/030,785, filed on May 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0369196 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61B 5/0205 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/091 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/4842 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0205 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/091 (2013.01); A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 7/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical system, comprising:
a signal receiver circuit configured to receive physiologic information of a patient from an ambulatory medical device (AMD), the physiologic information comprising respiration information of the patient; and
an assessment circuit configured to determine a pneumonia score of the patient indicative of a prediction of a future adverse pneumonia event within a time period using changes in daily respiration information of the patient over multiple days, wherein the changes in daily respiration information are determined using the received respiration information.