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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 )...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...