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7621877 |
Body surface probe, apparatus and method for non-invasively detecting medical conditions
A probe for application to a selected area of a subject's skin covering a body part, which selected area serves as a measurement site for measuring changes in the pulsatile arterial blood volume...
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7621876 |
Continuous, non-invasive technique for determining blood pressure using a transmission line model and transcutaneous ultrasound measurements
A method and technique for the continuous, non-invasive measurement of blood pressure. The blood pressure measurement technique of the present invention utilizes ultrasound measurements to...
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7621875 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing cardiovascular sounds using eigen functions
Non-invasive methods for detecting arterial disease in vivo include obtaining acoustic signals from a sensor held on an external body region proximate an artery. A complex frequency grid of...
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7615010 |
System for monitoring the physiologic parameters of patients with congestive heart failure
A telemetric sensing system for monitoring physiological parameters for diagnosis and treatment of congestive heart failure in a patient. This system includes one or more implantable sensing...
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7613486 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating human stress using photoplethysmography
A method of evaluating human stress using photoplethysmography (PPG) includes defining at least one PPG parameter, radiating light having at least one wavelength, which reacts to a blood component...
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7611470 |
Measurement of cardiac output and blood volume by non-invasive detection of indicator dilution
A system for evaluating the cardiovascular system parameters using indicator dilution and non-invasive or minimally invasive detection methods is disclosed. Intravascular indicators are stimulated,...
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7608042 |
Blood monitoring system
The present invention is directed towards apparatuses and methods for the automated measurement of blood analytes and blood parameters for bedside monitoring of patient blood chemistry....
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7604605 |
Device, system, and method for detecting and localizing obstruction within a blood vessel
The present invention is of system, device, and method for detecting and localizing obstruction in a blood vessel. More particularly, the present invention is of a balloon catheter having an...
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7601123 |
Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring device and methods
The apparatus and methods of the present invention provide a non-invasive measurement of blood pressure with a frequency that approximates a continuous measurement. Blood pressure measurement...
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7597666 |
Access pressure ratio device and testing method
The present invention discloses a detection device for detecting irregular intravascular pressure, the device including an analyzer for automatically analyzing intravascular pressure upstream of...
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7594891 |
Portable physiological parameter monitor
A microprocessor unit receives input data from a work measuring station, a sphygmomanometer, and a heart rate sensor and combines such data to provide output signals to a display device indicative...
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7582060 |
Diagnosing peripheral vascular disease by monitoring oxygen saturation changes during a hyperemia phase
Peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed through measurements of oxygen saturation. In a specific implementation, peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed based on changes in oxygen saturation in...
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7574255 |
Criteria for monitoring intrathoracic impedance
An exemplary method includes providing information (e.g., a left atrial pressure, a NYHA class, echocardiographic information, etc.), based at least in part on the information, determining a weight...
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7572228 |
Devices for fixing a sensor in a lumen
Apparatus for positioning at least one sensor in a body lumen, the apparatus including a fixation element, a sensor, and a connecting element that connects the sensor to the fixation element, the...
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7569017 |
Diagnosing peripheral vascular disease by monitoring oxygen saturation changes during an ischemia phase
Peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed through measurements of oxygen saturation. In a specific implementation, peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed based on changes in oxygen saturation in...
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7569016 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
There are provided transmission means ( 1 ) for transmitting an ultrasonic signal from a surface of a skin of a subject toward a blood vessel ( 21 ) of the subject, reception means ( 3 ) for...
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7559899 |
Power saving techniques for continuous heart rate monitoring
A heart rate monitor implements power saving algorithms while monitoring a subject's heart rate. The monitor continuously monitors a subject during an initial period to determine an initial heart...
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7559894 |
Multiparameter whole blood monitor and method
The present invention provides an apparatus and methods for continuous intravascular measurement of whole blood concentration, blood pressure, and pulse pressure. The intravascular catheter...
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7555470 |
Research data collection and analysis
The invention provides a method and system by which research data can be collected and analyzed during the course of the research testing, and the research testing itself possibly modified to...
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7547284 |
Bilateral differential pulse method for measuring brain activity
A method of measuring human brain activity includes the steps of simultaneously measuring pulses at two locations on a human subject that each receives blood from a different carotid artery that...
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7534206 |
Navigation-assisted fitness and dieting device
A navigation-assisted fitness device broadly comprising a location determining component, a fitness monitoring component and a display. The location determining component determines location data...
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7524290 |
System and method of non-invasive blood pressure measurements and vascular parameter detection in small subjects
A system and method for taking non-invasive blood pressure and other vascular parameter measurements includes placing a vascular compression device about an appendage of a subject. An...
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7520860 |
Detection of coronary artery disease using an electronic stethoscope
The disclosure describes an electronic stethoscope system that automatically detects coronary artery disease in patients. The system uses an electronic stethoscope to record acoustic data from the...
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7507206 |
Stress reducer
The present invention combines into a single housing a multiplicity of features that may be used separately or together to facilitate stress reduction in the user. A central computer receives...
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7497832 |
Method and device for measuring peripheral vascular function
A patient's peripheral pulse volume and blood pressure are measured. The quantities are used to obtain a quantitative measure of peripheral vascular function. The quantitative measure can be one or...
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7490222 |
High and low power dual CPU cardiograph data processing system with gathering an display
An electronic data processing device with dual-CPU for processing and sensing information related to heart beatings of a human body includes the first CPU and the second CPU. The first CPU, which...
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7488292 |
Blood vessel detection device
A blood-vessel detecting device includes a partially-deforming device which can be inserted into the body cavity so as to come into contact with the tissue surface in order to deform a part of the...
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7481770 |
Method and system for tissue differentiation
A system and method for tissue differentiation. In the method, M acoustic signals s i (t), i=1 to M, are obtained from M locations on a body surface. The N signals are subjected to band pass...
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7479111 |
Methods for measuring blood pressure with automatic compensations
Disclosed is a method for measuring an arterial blood pressure of a subject comprising detecting a pulse-wave-related signal of the subject; extracting a feature from the signals; determining a...
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7474906 |
Method for dye injection for the transcutaneous measurement of cardiac output
A system for evaluating the cardiovascular system parameters using indicator dilution and non-invasive or minimally invasive detection and calibration methods are disclosed. Intravascular...
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7473230 |
Instrumented catheter with distance compensation to sense vulnerable plaque
A method and apparatus for determining vulnerable plaque in a cardiovascular lumen is disclosed. In one embodiment, a guide member comprising a temperature sensor and a distance sensor are inserted...
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7473227 |
Apparatus for the treatment of sleep apnea
The invention concerns a medical device for implantation in a body, comprising a stimulation unit, a sleep detector unit having at least one signal input which is adapted to detect a sleep...
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7468034 |
Biological information monitoring apparatus
A biological information monitoring apparatus highly precisely observes a clothed subject who is taking any desired posture. The apparatus acquires information on positional displacements of the...
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7462151 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating physiological coherence and autonomic balance
Method and apparatus for determining the state of entrainment between biological systems which exhibit oscillatory behavior such as heart rhythms, respiration, blood pressure waves and low...
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7460899 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring heart rate variability
A wrist-worn or arm band worn heart rate variability monitor is provided. Heart rate variability (“HRV”) refers to the variability of the time interval between heartbeats and is a reflection of...
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7452332 |
Report on changes over time in blood vessel elasticity indexes and bioinformation output apparatus
A report on changes over time is generated and outputted that presents, in addition to the changes of blood vessel elasticity indexes, the changes over time of other measured values of...
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7442169 |
Methods of distinguishing between vasoconstriction and vasodilation as a cause of hypotension
The present invention relates to the use of the arterial pressure waveform recorded invasively or non-invasively, to distinguish between compensatory vasoconstriction with low cardiac output on the...
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7438688 |
Apparatus and method for measuring pulse rate
In an apparatus adapted to measure a pulse rate of a subject, a plurality of band pass filters, each of which has a center frequency that is different from the others are provided. The band pass...
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7435220 |
Monitoring, system for cardiac surgical operations with cardiopulmonary bypass
A monitoring system for cardiac operations with cardiopulmonary bypass comprising: a processor operatively connected to a heart-lung machine; a pump flow detecting device connected to a pump of the...
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7422560 |
Detection of congestion from monitoring patient response to a recumbent position
Systems and methods obtain information that allows detection of whether a patient suffers from congestion by monitoring a response of the patient to a recumbent position of the patient's body. The...
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RE40470 |
Body function measuring apparatus
Body function measuring apparatus which provides: (1) an indication of the body function being measured, and (2) a loose probe condition by determining that the difference between the rate of...
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7413545 |
Method of calculating circulation dynamics of a living body
In a method of calculating circulation dynamics of a living body, a resistance component corresponding to a shape of a blood vessel in the living body is derived using previously obtained values of...
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7410465 |
Devices for counteracting hypotension
Devices and methods are disclosed to address blood pressure control. More particularly, the present invention relates to correction of transient low blood pressure.
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7407486 |
Method and an apparatus for pulse plethysmograph based detection of nociception during anesthesia or sedation
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for monitoring a condition of a patient under anesthesia or sedation. For this purpose there is a sensor for acquiring a signal that represents...
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7407484 |
Physiological monitoring system for a computational device of a human subject
A system for monitoring at least one physiological parameter of a human subject. The system of the present invention features a device with which the human subject regularly interacts, and which is...
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7397937 |
Region growing in anatomical images
A region-growing method for identifying nodules in an anatomical volume segments a 3-D image volume by controlled voxel growth from seed points. The process is based on creation and use of a...
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7393328 |
Physical condition monitoring system
A microcomputer included in a physical condition monitoring system calculates the amount of autonomic nerve activity during sleep based on physical information during sleep collected by a physical...
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7384398 |
Device and method for detecting abnormal situations
The invention concerns a device for detecting abnormal situations, in particular falls, in a living being, comprising means generating an alarm signal representing an abnormal situation, based on...
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7374541 |
System for determining endothelial dependent vasoactivity
A method of determining endothelial dependent vasoactivity of a subject, the method is effected by recording pressure-related signals of a plurality of locations adjacent to at least one blood...
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7374540 |
Non-invasive probe for detecting medical conditions
A non-invasive probe for application to a body part, such as a finger, toe or limb, for the detection of a medical condition of the subject includes a housing defining a compartment closed at one...
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