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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182429 | Enhanced functionality and accuracy for a wrist-based multi-parameter monitor A method for adjusting a blood pressure measurement to compensate for a pressure offset due to obtaining the blood pressure measurement at an elevation other than heart level is illustrated. The method includes measuring a blood pressure at a location above or below... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177721 | Remote blood pressure waveform sensing method and apparatus The invention as disclosed is a non-contact method and apparatus for continuously monitoring a physiological event in a human or animal, such as blood pressure, which involves utilizing a laser-based interferometer system in combination with a laser tracking system ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172760 | Medical device encapsulated within bonded dies An implantable medical system includes a first die substrate with a first outer surface. The system also includes a second die substrate with a second outer surface. Furthermore, the system includes a medical device with a first portion that is mounted to the first ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8147415 | System and method for detection of pulmonary embolism Systems and methods provide for ambulatorily sensing pulmonary artery pressure from within a patient, and producing a pulmonary artery pressure measurement from the sensed pulmonary artery pressure. Power is ambulatorily provided within the patient to facilitate sen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8128570 | Personalized fluid assessment A system and method of monitoring the fluid status of a patient. The system may include a patient monitor that receives blood pressure data. A first fluid model receives the blood pressure data, and a personalized fluid model is derived from the application of the b... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8114025 | Device and method for controlling the pressure in an inflatable cuff of a blood pressure manometer The invention relates to a method and a device for regulating the pressure in at least one inflatable cuff, preferably a finger cuff (6), of a blood pressure manometer comprising a plethysmographic sensor device (8, 9) for detecting a plethysmographic ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8100835 | Arterial pulse decomposition analysis for vital signs determination Determining physiological life signs, with a sensor that is in contact with the surface of a patient's skin at point proximate an artery, and measuring arterial blood vessel displacement and/or blood pressure changes. A data stream of measurements of is collected an... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8043223 | Method and apparatus for automated vascular function testing A method and system for use in measuring the endothelial dysfunction utilizing flow mediated dilation and determining arterial health of a patient. The system includes a non-invasive blood pressure monitor, an ultrasound system and a pulse oximeter monitor that all ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8016763 | Method for analysing pressure signals derivable from a body cavity A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, includes the steps of sampling said signals and converting the signals to pressure-related digital data with a time reference, wherein the method... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016762 | Device and method for outputting bioinformation and bioinformation report Blood pressure values measured in four limbs are plotted on first to fourth linear axes which extend from an origin in an upper right direction, an upper left direction, a lower left direction, and a lower right direction respectively, and a rectangle composed of ve... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7993275 | Bilateral device, system and method for monitoring vital signs The invention features a monitoring device that measures a patient's vital signs (e.g. blood pressure). The device features a first sensor configured to attach to a first portion of the patient's body that includes: i) a first electrode configured to generate a firs... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7967757 | 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 a discrete representation pressure waveform having an order greater than one. Arterial compliance, the exponen... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7963922 | Volume depletion detection Detection of volume depletion, particularly after an incidence of volume overload is disclosed. Various methods, systems, and devices are disclosed that sense and analyze a physiological parameter related to a patient's fluid level in order to warn patients of poten... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963921 | Method and measuring device for determining blood pressure The invention is directed to a method and a device for determining the blood pressure, in which a pressure sensor is applied to an individual's limb to detect the blood pressure prevailing in said limb. According to the present invention, the orientation of the limb... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955267 | Apparatus for control of non-invasive parameter measurements Improved methods and apparatus for non-invasively assessing one or more parameters associated with fluidic systems such as the circulatory system of a living organism. In a first aspect, an improved method of continuously measuring pressure from a compressible vesse... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951086 | 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 based at least in part on the oscillating signal on the artery at a meas... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7946994 | Compact apparatus and methods for non-invasively measuring hemodynamic parameters Improved apparatus and methods for non-invasively assessing one or more hemodynamic parameters associated with the circulatory system of a living organism. In one aspect, the invention comprises spatially compact “bracelet” embodiment adapted to accurately place... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946995 | Analyzing circadian variations of a hemodynamic parameter to determine an adverse cardiac condition A system and method of determining the status of an adverse cardiac condition of a medical patient based on circadian variation of one or more hemodynamic parameters are provided. In some embodiments, the system and method calculate a first average value of a series... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7935061 | Method and apparatus for monitoring physiological conditions The invention concerns a physiological monitoring device that, in one embodiment, comprises a capacitive sensor. The sensor comprises a first plate, a second plate and a dielectric medium coupled to the first plate and second plate. A power source charges the sensor... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7887490 | Method and device for removing respiratory artefacts from measured blood pressure data The invention relates to a method and a device for removing respiratory artefacts in invasive blood pressure measurements. The level of CO2 in the expired air is monitored during blood pressure measurement and used to approximate and remove the respiratory artifacts... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7878978 | Use of relaxin to increase arterial compliance The present invention provides methods for increasing arterial compliance. The methods generally involve administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of relaxin. The present invention further provides methods of increasing arterial compliance i... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7871381 | Noninvasive blood pressure monitoring system The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises a single microprocessor-based interface that connects between a noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) sensor and an invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitor or module. The interface effectively emulates an IBP tra... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871382 | Interface between a noninvasive blood pressure sensor and an invasive blood pressure monitor The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises a single microprocessor-based interface that connects between a noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) sensor and an invasive blood pressure (IBP) monitor or module. The interface effectively emulates an IBP tra... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7867170 | Method and apparatus for non-invasively measuring hemodynamic parameters using parametrics An improved method and apparatus for non-invasively assessing one or more hemodynamic parameters associated with the circulatory system of a living organism. In one aspect, the invention comprises a method of measuring a hemodynamic parameter (e.g., arterial blood p... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857769 | System and method for non-invasively determining a left ventricular end-diastolic pressure A system and method for determining a left ventricular end-diastolic pressure of blood within a left ventricle of a patient includes non-invasively measuring a plurality of cardiac parameters of the patient. The cardiac parameters may include a mitral valve area, an... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7833164 | 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 tone in conjunction with heavy activity level and a generally parasympa... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7815576 | Method for determining haemodynamic parameters A method for determining haemodynamic parameters from patient pressure signals includes receiving patient pressure signals from a measurement receiver to which vessel pressures measured in the body of a patient are supplied, selecting and determining a patient press... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7803120 | Bilateral device, system and method for monitoring vital signs The invention features a monitoring device that measures a patient's vital signs (e.g.). The device features a first sensor configured to attach to a first portion of the patient's body that includes: i)a first electrode configured to generate a first electrical sig... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798973 | Detection of hypovolemia using implantable medical device An implantable medical device receives a physiological signal indicative of circulatory blood volume and detects hypovolemia from that physiological signal. In one embodiment, an implantable pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) senses a PAP signal, and the implantable me... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7794403 | System for measuring pulsatile vascular resistance The invention relates to acquiring information concerning the hemodynamic status of the brain (or any other organ) by measuring and analysing the pulsatile properties of blood flow (velocities) in the organ's feeding vessels in relation to the pulsatile properties o... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7785263 | Pressure-based system and method for determining cardiac stroke volume Cardiac stroke volume (SV) of a subject is estimated as a function of a value derived from a measured arterial pressure waveform. The value may be the standard deviation, or a function of the difference between maximum and minimum pressure values, or a function of e... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780603 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus Adaptive attachments used in combination with a blood pressure cuff enable various blood pressure measurements to be taken in a hospital or other setting having various single and/or dual lumen manual or electronic blood pressure measuring equipment with a single pa... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7780604 | Method and device for the intermittent occlusion of the coronary sinus In a method for intermittently occluding the coronary sinus, in which the coronary sinus is occluded using an occlusion device, the fluid pressure in the occluded coronary sinus is continuously measured and stored, the fluid pressure curve is determined as a functio... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775985 | Method for analysing pressure signals derivable from a body cavity A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, includes the steps of sampling said signals and converting the signals to pressure-related digital data with a time reference, wherein the method... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775986 | Therapy device with a time-variable blood regulation A therapy device having a blood pressure device and a regulating device for a time-variable regulation of the blood pressure, which decides, during a therapy procedure, dependent on detected blood pressure value, whether the blood regulation is continued with hypoth... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775984 | Electronic blood pressure monitor and data processing apparatus At the time of blood pressure measurement by an electronic blood pressure monitor, a calculation portion calculates a blood pressure based on a pressure within a cuff detected by a pressure sensor, and outputs blood pressure data. A data storing portion stores the b... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771361 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus and method of measuring blood pressure Provided is a blood pressure measuring apparatus and a method of measuring blood pressure. The blood pressure measuring apparatus includes a plurality of blood pressure measuring units disposed on a substrate, a plurality of optical sensors disposed on the substrate... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7762956 | Electronic blood pressure meter There is provided an electronic sphygmomanometer that permits a user to visually recognize easily that he or she started measurement by manipulating his or her identification key and that his or her measured value is being displayed on a display unit. The electronic... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7722543 | Blood pressure measuring device A blood pressure monitor includes a cuff having an air bag, a main-unit casing in which an inflation/deflation mechanism for inflating/deflating the air bag is provided, a flexible air tube connecting the air bag and the inflation/deflation mechanism, and a retracto... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722542 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus A blood pressure measuring apparatus includes an inflatable sleeve socket that is capable of receiving an engagement portion of a compact gage housing having either a contained mechanical or an electronic pressure gauge. This coupling permits direct attachment to th... | 05/25/2010 |
