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7618378 |
Breath biofeedback system and method
A breath biofeedback method and system for encouraging a subject to modify respiration. The system includes a thoracic volume input module measuring thoracic volume data of the subject and a...
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7613507 |
Non-invasive detection of the occurrence of apneae or hypopneae in a patient
A device for the non-invasive detection of apneae or hypopneae in a patient. This apparatus collects the patient's endocardial acceleration using an external acceleration sensor ( 12 ) able to be...
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7610094 |
Synergistic use of medical devices for detecting medical disorders
Methods and systems for detecting medical disorders through synergistic use of one or more medical devices are described. One or more medical devices are selected to sense one or more physiological...
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7608047 |
Reusable snore/air flow sensor
A sensor for use with a polysomnograph in a sleep lab setting is made reusable by laminating a PVDF film and associated lead contacts within a flexible, moisture-impervious plastic envelope that is...
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7593767 |
Ambulatory sleepiness and apnea propensity evaluation system
The present invention relates to a method of analyzing a subject for excessive daytime sleepiness, and more particularly to a quick (short duration), quantitative method of analyzing a subject for...
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7588543 |
Method and apparatus for predicting work of breathing
A method of creating a non-invasive predictor of both physiologic and imposed patient effort from airway pressure and flow sensors attached to the patient using an adaptive mathematical model. The...
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7575555 |
Docking station for retrieving data in conjunction with improved incentive spirometry devices
An apparatus used in the medical industry, in order to increase transpulmonary pressure and respiratory volumes, to improve inspiratory muscle performance and re-establish the normal pulmonary...
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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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7572225 |
Sleep logbook
An approach to collecting and organizing information associated with events affecting sleep is presented. The sleep logbook system may acquire information associated with the sleep during periods...
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7570979 |
Methods and apparatus for patient monitoring
A respiratory monitoring apparatus that detects changes in physiological parameters relevant to respiration, including blood oxygen and blood volume, using near infrared spectroscopy. Methods for...
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7567831 |
Respiratory measurement system and method related thereto
A respiratory measurement system and a method for measuring respiratory motion are provided. The system includes a strapping device that is configured to be placed across a chest of a person. The...
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7566310 |
System for diagnosing and treating sleep apnea
Two programs measure upper airway resistance using Resistance=Pressure/Flow. Raw flow and pressure data is divided into breaths and time adjusted so each breath starts with the value zero. Each...
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7559903 |
Breathing sound analysis for detection of sleep apnea/popnea events
Apparatus for use detection of apnea includes a microphone mounted in the ear of the patient for detecting breathing sounds and a second external microphone together with an oximetric sensor. A...
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7559902 |
Physiological monitoring garment
A physiological monitoring garment includes first and second elastic fabric portions. An elongate stretchable textile data/power bus is disposed between the first and second elastic fabric...
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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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7553286 |
Real-time monitoring of the state of the autonomous nervous system of a patient
The invention relates to a method and arrangement for monitoring the state of the autonomous nervous system (ANS) of a patient. A first measurement signal is acquired from a patient, the first...
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7547285 |
Device and method for collection of exhaled alveolar breath condensate
A diagnosis method for respiratory disease based on the separation of the expired airway phase in an exhaled breath from the alveolar phase, and a device to accomplish the method. The device...
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7540843 |
Diagnostics and treatment of sleep apnea
Methods of diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea by taking measurements from a subject suffering from sleep apnea are disclosed. The methods include modelling the air flow through the upper airway...
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7539539 |
Implantable cardiac stimulation device with respiratory modulated therapy delivery
A method of providing cardiac stimulation therapy and a device for providing the therapy. A patient's cardiac activity as well as cyclical respiration is monitored. Cardiac stimulation is provided...
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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...
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7530956 |
Daytime/nighttime respiration rate monitoring
A device and method can monitor or trend a patient's respiration rate measurements according to the time of day. The device, which may be implantable or external, collects and classifies...
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7520861 |
Method and apparatus for displaying body sounds and performing diagnosis based on body sound analysis
A lung sound diagnostic system for use in collecting, organizing and analyzing lung sounds associated with the inspiration(s) and expiration(s) of a patient. The system includes a plurality of...
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7517320 |
Airway bypass site selection and treatment planning
The invention relates to systems and methods for site selection and placement of extra-anatomic passages altering gaseous flow in a diseased lung.
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7513875 |
Method and system for managing mechanical respiratory ventilation
A system and computer implemented method for operating a respiratory ventilator ventilating a subject. One or more body signals obtained from the subject indicative of the subject's ventilation are...
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7510531 |
System and method for discrimination of central and obstructive disordered breathing events
Disordered breathing events may be classified as central, obstructive or a combination of central an obstructive in origin based on patient motion associated with respiratory effort. Central...
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7507203 |
System and method for remotely monitoring physiological functions
A system and method for remotely monitoring an individual, in accordance with some embodiments of the invention. More particularly, one or more physiological functions and/or physical activities of...
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7491174 |
Device and method for performing electrical impedance tomography
A system for performing electrical impedance tomography. The system includes a first set of electrodes positioned in a first plane and a second set of electrodes positioned in a second plane. 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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7479115 |
Computer aided diagnosis of lung disease
A method and apparatus by which lung deceases are identified uses computer analysis of sound signals that are picked up from various locations on the chest walls of a subject by a modified...
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7479114 |
Determining blood gas saturation based on measured parameter of respiration
Systems and methods provide for determining blood gas saturation based on one or more measured respiration parameters. A parameter of respiration is measured implantably over a duration of time....
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7473228 |
System and method for monitoring a respiration rate of an occupant of a predetermined volume
An ultrasonic sensing system includes an ultrasonic transmitter, an ultrasonic receiver, a processor and a memory subsystem. The transmitter is positioned to transmit an ultrasonic signal into a...
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7468040 |
Methods and systems for implantably monitoring external breathing therapy
An implantable device is used to monitor one or more conditions associated with an external breathing therapy delivered to the patient. The device may monitor therapy parameters including therapy...
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7467012 |
Respiration parameters controlled by heart rate
Heart rate information is used at least in part to obtain one or more parameters for inducing respiration. In various implementations, respiratory parameters, such as a target breathing rate or a...
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7465276 |
Identification of disease characteristics using isotope ratios in breath
Methods are disclosed for distinguishing whether an animal is experiencing a bacterial infection or a viral infection. One monitors breath taken from the animal over time to measure the relative...
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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...
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7457753 |
Telephone pathology assessment
A system for remote assessment of a user is disclosed. The system comprises application software resident on a server and arranged to interact across a network with a user operating a client device...
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7455644 |
Carbon dioxide sensor and airway adapter incorporated in the same
In a sensor for detecting a carbon dioxide gas in an expiration gas of a living body, an airway case is adapted to be disposed below nostrils of the living body, and formed with an airway passage...
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7454250 |
System and method for applying therapy during hyperpnea phase of periodic breathing using an implantable medical device
Techniques are provided for treating periodic breathing, such as Cheyne-Stokes Respiration, using an implantable medical system. In one technique, diaphragmatic stimulation is delivered during a...
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7438690 |
Peak expiratory flow meter capable of measuring continuous expiratory flow signal
Disclosed herein is a peak expiratory flow meter capable of measuring continuous expiratory flow. The peak expiratory flow meter includes a lower casing unit ( 110 ), an air expansion unit ( 130 )...
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7438686 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring for disordered breathing
The present invention relates to a device and method for monitoring for sleep disordered breathing or other types of disordered breathing such as Cheyne-Stokes breathing. More specifically, a...
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7435226 |
Method and apparatus for displaying information obtained by electrical impedance tomography data
The invention refers to a method and an apparatus for displaying information obtained by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) data from a part of a patient's body. In order to provide a method for...
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7435221 |
System and method for detecting abnormal respiration based on intracardiac electrogram signals using a pattern recognition device
Techniques are provided for detecting abnormal respiration within a patient based upon intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signals or other electrical cardiac signals. Briefly, abnormal respiration is...
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7431700 |
Body movement and respiration monitor
A monitor which can detect respiration of a sleeping person without being affected by the attitude of the sleeping person or the indoor illumination light and can easily evaluate detected...
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7429247 |
Sleep state estimating device and program product
A sleep state of a subject is estimated from respiration signals that are readily detected without restraining the subject. From a voltage waveform based on respiratory movement of a person,...
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7427270 |
Sleep stage determination apparatus
Disclosed is a sleep stage determination apparatus which comprises respiratory-signal detection means for detecting a variation of a respiratory signal from the body of a human subject, and...
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7427269 |
Accurate method to characterize airway nitric oxide using different breath-hold times including axial diffusion of nitric oxide using heliox and breath hold
An apparatus and method to characterize NO gas exchange dynamics in human lungs comprising the steps of: (1) performing a series of breath hold maneuvers of progressively increasingly breath hold...
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7425201 |
Method and apparatus for predicting work of breathing
A method of creating a non-invasive predictor of both physiologic and imposed patient effort from airway pressure and flow sensors attached to the patient using an adaptive mathematical model. The...
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7421882 |
Breath-based sensors for non-invasive molecular detection
A method of diagnosing the health of an individual by collecting a breath sample from the individual and measuring the amount of each of a plurality of analytes in the sample. The amount of each...
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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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7413549 |
Detecting and quantifying apnea using ventilatory cycle histograms
Subject matter includes methods and devices for detecting and quantifying apnea. One exemplary implementation includes deriving a ventilation related parameter in real-time from a patient, deriving...
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