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7618376 Device for assessing perfusion failure in a patient by measurement of blood flow  
A device is provided for assessing impairment of blood circulation in a patient, such as that in perfusion failure, by measurement of blood flow adjacent a mucosal surface accessible by a mouth or...
7618375 Rapid non-invasive blood pressure measuring device  
A measurement device for generating an arterial volume-indicative signal includes an exciter and a detector. The exciter is adapted to receive an oscillating signal and generate a pressure wave...
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...
7610936 Flow based pressure isolation mechanism for a fluid delivery system  
The fluid delivery system includes a pressurizing device for delivering a pressurized injection fluid, a low pressure fluid delivery system, and a pressure isolation mechanism adapted for fluid...
7608046 Apparatus for and method of biotic sleep state determining  
A biotic sleep state determining apparatus that determines a sleep state of a subject based on a series of pulse interval data that indicate a time interval of one cycle of a pulse wave of the...
7608045 Method for noninvasive continuous determination of physiologic characteristics  
The invention comprises methods for noninvasively monitoring physiological characteristics of a patient's blood. Determinations of blood constituent concentrations may be made by comparing...
7604602 Disposable blood pressure transducer and monitor interface  
A medical blood pressure transducer that provides an identifier to a monitor that conveys characteristics of the transducer. The monitor can use the information to decide whether to function, or in...
7603631 Method and apparatus for monitoring dynamic systems using n-dimensional representations of critical functions  
A method, system and apparatus for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed...
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...
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...
7594893 Method and apparatus for calculating blood pressure with signal transformation  
A method and an apparatus for calculating blood pressure with signal transformation are provided, wherein said apparatus comprises: a pressure sensor, a pressure and pulse wave amplification...
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...
7591074 Medical laser vertical alignment system  
A medical laser vertical alignment system that has a precise locating strip affixed perpendicularly to a static pressure scale and that vertically and horizontally aligns the center of rotation of...
7588542 Device for determining a hemodynamic parameter  
An arterially measured pressure signal is continuously read in and temporarily stored in the working memory (RAM). The function p(t) is processed by the central processing unit (CPU), to calculate...
7584004 Vascularly stabilized peripheral nerve cuff assembly  
A vascularly stabilized peripheral nerve cuff assembly is provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to an electrode assembly used in the delivery of neural stimulation therapy. The electrode...
7577478 Ischemia detection for anti-arrhythmia therapy  
An exemplary method includes detecting arrhythmia, detecting myocardial ischemia, determining whether the myocardial ischemia comprises local ischemia or global ischemia and, in response to the...
7572229 Probe for use in measuring a biological signal and biological signal measuring system incorporating the probe  
A probe for use in photoplethysmographic (PPG) measurement includes a light source unit including a light source that contacts a predetermined site of an object and emits light onto the...
7572227 Blood pressure measuring apparatus  
This invention provides a blood pressure measuring apparatus capable of stably measuring the blood pressure in even the tragus while suppressing the degree of invasion. An attaching portion ( 3 )...
7572226 System and method for monitoring autonomic balance and physical activity  
An implantable device monitors the balance between sympathetic tone and parasympathetic tone as a function of an activity level. Cardio-neurological healthy users exhibit a generally sympathetic...
7569018 Apparatus and method for noninvasively detecting the quality of cardiac pumping  
An auditory pulse monitor for noninvasively detecting the amplitude of arterial pulses on a beat-by-beat basis. A light-weight optical sensor including a light source and photodetector is adapted...
7566308 Method and apparatus for pulmonary artery pressure signal isolation  
An implantable system senses a pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) signal using an implantable sensor placed in the pulmonary artery and isolates a plurality of signals from the PAP signal for...
7566307 Blood pressure monitoring apparatus  
A blood pressure monitoring apparatus which continuously estimates and monitors the blood pressure by using the pulse wave propagation time can accurately estimate the blood pressure. While an...
7566306 Biological information processing apparatus and operation program product for the same  
A biological information processing apparatus is strong against the noises or disturbances, and can accurately determine an evaluation value or blood vessel age. A pulse wave acquirer acquires...
7559898 Method for analysis of single pulse pressure waves  
This invention relates to a method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising the steps of identifying during given...
7544168 Measuring systolic blood pressure by photoplethysmography  
The present invention relates to cuff-based method for the measurement of systolic blood pressure (SBP) by measuring photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals in peripheral blood vessels distal to the...
7532964 Driver seat system and awakening device  
There are provided a monitor for monitoring a human condition of a driver, and an awakening device for awakening a driver, which starts operation when received a predictive signal for fall-asleep...
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...
7510533 Pressure sensing valve  
A pressure sensing catheter having a pressure sensor and an antenna that is coupled to the pressure sensor, e.g., by a connector, are provided. The pressure sensor can be adapted to measure a...
7510530 Pulse wave measuring apparatus  
A pressing cuff presses a pressure sensor above an artery. The level of the pressure applied to the pressure sensor is changed while the pulse wave is measured based on information about the...
7507208 Method and apparatus for continuous pulse contour cardiac output  
A system and method are provided for sensing cardiac electrogram (EGM) signals and ventricular pressure signals and for using the sensed EGM and sensed pressure signals for estimating stroke volume...
7507207 Portable biological information monitor apparatus and information management apparatus  
In a portable biological information monitor apparatus, a pulse wave detection signal obtained by light emission from a green LED and a body motion detection signal obtained by light emission from...
7503896 Method and apparatus for the noninvasive assessment of hemodynamic parameters including blood vessel location  
A method and apparatus for determining the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) of a subject during tonometric conditions. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises one or more pressure and...
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...
7497831 Blood pressure measuring system and method  
A blood pressure measuring system and method are provided. The blood pressure measuring system includes a first sensing unit sensing a patient's blood pressure, a second sensing unit sensing a...
7491169 Ultrasonic apparatus and method to assess compartment syndrome  
A process and apparatus for measuring pressure buildup in a body compartment that encases muscular tissue. The method includes assessing the body compartment configuration and identifying the...
7489963 Method of correcting for phase error induced by a down sampling routine  
A method and apparatus of correcting a data signal sampled at a first rate to a data signal displayed on a video monitor at a second rate is claimed. A data signal is received at a first rate. The...
7488290 System and method for assessing cardiac performance through transcardiac impedance monitoring  
A system and method for assessing cardiac performance through transcardiac impedance monitoring is described. Intracardiac impedance measures are directly collected through an implantable medical...
7481774 Catheter with physiological sensor  
The disclosed embodiments present improved catheters with physiological sensors. In one embodiment, the catheter includes, generally, a pressure transducer/electronics assembly connected to a...
7481772 Vital signs monitor used for conditioning a patient's response  
The invention provides a method for monitoring a patient, comprising the following steps: 1) outfitting the patient with a ambulatory blood pressure monitor that features an optical system for...
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...
7476204 Visualization of values of a physical property detected in an organism over time  
A system for visually indicating, in real time or post hoc, values of a physical property detected over a period of time along a dimension of an organism to a user on a temporal plot and a profile...
7476200 Device and method for regulating blood flow  
A system and method for regulating blood flow rate or blood pressure in a second blood vessel or heart chamber to achieve a balanced flow rate or blood pressure between the second blood vessel or...
7470234 Monitoring device, method and system  
A monitoring device ( 20 ) for monitoring the vital signs of a user is disclosed herein. The monitoring device ( 20 ) is preferably an article ( 25 ) having an optical sensor ( 30 ) and a circuitry...
7470233 Method and apparatus for muscle function measurement  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for monitoring muscle function based on an index derived from a pressure or force signal. The muscle function index is derived from an...
7468036 Monitoring device, method and system  
A monitoring device ( 20 ) for monitoring the vital signs of a user is disclosed herein. The monitoring device ( 20 ) is preferably an article ( 25 ) having an optical sensor ( 30 ) and a circuitry...
7468035 Automated method for discriminating the cardiac beat  
An automated method for discriminating the cardiac beat, on the basis of a blood pressure sampled signal, having a starting point Pstart, operating according to a finite state machine for...
7463759 System and method for vascular border detection  
A system and method use the frequency spectrum of a radio frequency (RF) signal backscattered from vascular tissue to identify at least one border on a vascular image. A data gathering device is...
7458937 Method and system for assessing breathing effectiveness via assessment of the dynamic arterial pressure wave using the oscillometric measurement technique  
The present invention specifies a method and system for assessing breathing effectiveness via dynamic assessment of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and the consequent arterial pressure wave using the...
7452334 Antenna stent device for wireless, intraluminal monitoring  
Disclosed herein is a stent device useful for maintaining the patency of a lumen while monitoring an intraluminal characteristic. The device includes a structure having a set of extendible bands...
7452333 Arterial pressure-based, automatic determination of a cardiovascular parameter  
One or more cardiovascular parameters is estimated as a function of the arterial pressure waveform, in particular, using at least one statistical moment of pressure waveform having an order greater...