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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180440 | Alarm system that processes both motion and vital signs using specific heuristic rules and thresholds The invention provides a body-worn monitor that measures a patient's vital signs (e.g. blood pressure, SpO2, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature) while simultaneously characterizing their activity state (e.g. resting, walking, convulsing, falling). The bod... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175694 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems Continuous remote monitoring of patients based on data obtained from an implantable hemodynamic monitor provides an interactive patient management system. Using network systems, patients are remotely monitored to continuously diagnose and treat heart-failure conditi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175693 | Cardiac resynchronization therapy optimization using electromechanical delay from realtime electrode motion tracking An exemplary method includes providing a mechanical activation time (MA time) for a myocardial location, the location defined at least in part by an electrode and the mechanical activation time determined at least in part by movement of the electrode; providing an e... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8116858 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring heart motions Methods and apparatus for monitoring the heart motion of a subject employ a probe which can be coupled to a portion of the anatomy of a subject such as the aortic arch or the thyroid cartilage. The probe is biased into contact with the subject. The probe detects mov... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112148 | System and method for monitoring cardiac signal activity in patients with nervous system disorders A medical device system and method for monitoring cardiac signal activity in patients with nervous system disorders. In some embodiments, a brain signal and a cardiac signal are received by a processor, brain events are identified in the brain signal, and the brain ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108038 | System and method for segmenting a cardiac signal based on brain activity A medical device system that includes a brain monitoring element, cardiac monitoring element and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a brain signal from the brain monitoring element and a cardiac signal from the cardiac monitoring element. The proces... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086302 | Cardiac signal sensor control based on perfusion sensing An optical perfusion sensor may monitor blood oxygen saturation of blood-perfused tissue, which may be referred to as tissue perfusion, until a tissue perfusion value is within a threshold range of a reference value, and, in some examples, for at least a minimum per... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086301 | Method and apparatus for cufflessly and non-invasively measuring wrist blood pressure in association with communication device A method of cufflessly and non-invasively measuring blood pressure in a wrist region of a patient in association with a communication device that relays the information being measured includes: detecting a magnitude difference between a plurality of pulse wave signa... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078270 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems Continuous remote monitoring of patients based on data obtained from an implantable hemodynamic monitor provides an interactive patient management system. Using network systems, patients are remotely monitored to continuously diagnose and treat heart-failure conditi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078269 | Apparatus, method and system of measuring sleep state A sleep state measuring apparatus includes an autonomic nerve index obtaining unit that obtains a user's autonomic nerve index; and a sleep periodicity index calculating unit that calculates a sleep periodicity index based on a temporal change of the autonomic nerve... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064992 | Active implantable medical device with holter recording functions This device collects and analyzes general data on the state of the patient, and collects continuously a monitored signal representative of a physiological function. It includes a memory with a first zone for the durable memorizing of these data, and analyzes in real... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046059 | Mobile diagnosis device A mobile diagnosis device comprised of an ECG unit (1) to record an ECG signal (55), with the ECG unit (1) being connected or connectible to two or more ECG electrodes (27, 28) to dissipate electrical signals from a patient's body, and co... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032207 | Counter pulsation electrotherapy apparatus for treating a person or a mammal An electrotherapy apparatus has a sensor for detecting periodically recurring signal peaks, in particular the R-R peaks of an electrocardiogram of a person and a processor for deriving from the periodically recurring signal peaks a time delay corresponding to approx... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019409 | Cardiac resynchronization therapy optimization using electromechanical delay from realtime electrode motion tracking An exemplary method includes providing a mechanical activation time (MA time) for a myocardial location, the location defined at least in part by an electrode and the mechanical activation time determined at least in part by movement of the electrode; providing an e... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000780 | Detection of myocardial ischemia from the time sequence of implanted sensor measurements A system including a plurality of implantable sensors, a processor, and a response circuit. Each sensor produces an electrical sensor signal related to physiologic cardiovascular events of a subject. The processor includes an event sequence detector to permit real-t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996074 | System and method for providing closely-followed cardiac therapy management through automated patient care A system and method for providing closely-followed cardiac therapy management through automated patient care is presented. A patient under remote care is enrolled in a monitoring program following commencement of a cardiac therapy regimen to be undertaken by the pat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996073 | System and method for interpreting electrocardiograms A system and method for interpreting electrocardiogram data. A system is provided that clusters raw electrocardiogram (EKG) data into clusters of EKG data; generates a predictive model for each cluster of EKG data; compares inputted patient EKG data with the cluster... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983745 | Advanced patient management with environmental data Systems, devices and methods for using environmental data to manage health care are disclosed. One aspect is an advanced patient management system. In various embodiments, the system includes at least one implantable medical device (IMD) to acquire at least one IMD ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7925335 | Method and apparatus for determining cardiac performance in a patient with a conductance catheter An apparatus for determining cardiac performance in the patient involving a conductance catheter (12) for measuring conductance and blood volume in a heart chamber of the patient. The apparatus includes a processor (14) for determining instantaneous vo... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912536 | Disposable, multi-purpose cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy testing device A disposable, multi-purpose cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy testing device which comprises a tubular body having a distal end, a proximal end and a passageway extending therebetween; at least one ECG electrode disposed on the exterior surface of the tubular body... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904141 | System and apparatus for determining the left-ventricular ejection time Tof a heart of a subject In order to reliably determine the left-ventricular ejection time TLVE of a heart of a subject, at least two different measuring methods are employed. This includes in any case the derivation of a first waveform related to thoracic electrical bioimpedance... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899522 | System and method for discriminating acute and chronic heart failure using an implantable medical device Techniques are provided for evaluating heart failure within a patient. In one example, the implantable device detects a decrease, if any, in selected morphological parameters derived from the intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) that are indicative of possible heart fail... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890160 | Heart monitoring system Heart monitoring system includes implantable medical device and service center. Implantable medical device includes stimulation pulse generator, ventricular sensing stage, activity sensor, impedance determination unit with a constant current or voltage source to gen... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873410 | Implantable medical device with electromechanical delay measurement for lead position and ventricular The cardiac rhythm management system includes an implantable medical device (IMD) with leads carrying electrodes for sensing cardiac electrical activity, and a physiologic sensor for sensing cardiac mechanical activity. The IMD measures electromechanical delays betw... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865233 | Subcutaneous cardiac signal discrimination employing non-electrophysiologic signal A cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation system includes a housing coupled to a plurality of electrodes configured for subcutaneous non-intrathoracic sensing. A signal processor receives a plurality of composite signals associated with a plurality of sources, separat... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7831301 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems Continuous remote monitoring of patients based on data obtained from an implantable hemodynamic monitor provides an interactive patient management system. Using network systems, patients are remotely monitored to continuously diagnose and treat heart-failure conditi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822471 | Method and apparatus for detecting artifact signals in the electrocardiogram of a patient caused by CPR and/or patient motion using patient impedance Medical apparatus for detecting the presence of artifact signals generated in the electrocardiogram of a patient by CPR and/or other patient motion. The presence of artifact signals is determined by analyzing variations in a measured electrical signal that represent... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822470 | Method for determining the left-ventricular ejection time Tof a heart of a subject In order to reliably determine the left-ventricular ejection time TLVE of a heart of a subject, at least two different measuring methods are employed. This includes in any case the derivation of a first waveform related to thoracic electrical bioimpedance... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7792574 | Alert predictive of degredation of a patient's clinical status for an active implantable medical device as for pacing, resynchronization, defibrillation and/or cardioversion An active implantable medical device, notably for pacing, resynchronization, defibrillation and/or cardioversion of the heart, or for diagnosis of a patient's condition, able to produce a predictive alert in response to a detected degradation of the patient's clinic... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7769437 | Method and apparatus for determining changes in heart failure status A method for operating a cardiac rhythm management device in which a clinical state vector is computed as a combination of a plurality of parameters related to a patient's heart failure status and compared to a previously computed clinical state vector to determine ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761141 | Non-invasive method and device to monitor cardiac parameters without use of electrical-mechanical interval A method of and a device for non-invasively measuring the hemodynamic state of a subject or a human patient involve steps and units of non-invasively or minimally invasively measuring cardiac cycle period, mean arterial pressure, stroke volume, diastolic interval an... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742808 | Heart rate monitor, method and computer software product The invention provides a heart rate monitor, a method and a computer software product. The method determines from the user's electrocardiogram a reference value of a heart rate variable characterizing the heart rate; determines at least one environmental parameter v... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734334 | Assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing based on cardiopulmonary coupling An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. An R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the R-R interval series a... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720529 | Implantable therapeutic device control system A control system for an implantable cardiac therapy device, the device defining a plurality of sensing vectors including at least one impedance sensing vector and operating under a set of a plurality of variable operating parameters that define conditions for delive... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7672715 | Method and apparatus for determining excitation-physiologic response delays An implantable medical device system and associated method are provided for measuring an excitation-physiological response delay. The method includes sensing a first signal responsive to electrical activity in a first cardiac chamber, sensing a second signal respons... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668589 | Integrated, plural-signal, heart-signal sensor system and related data-presentation methodology A system and a related methodology for gathering, during a selected time span, and from a common anatomical site, time-contemporaneous ECG-electrical and heart-sound signals including (1) processing such signals to effect (a) time-based, related ECG fiducials, and (... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657306 | Non-invasive method and device to monitor cardiac parameters A method of and a device for non-invasively measuring the hemodynamic state of a subject or a human patient involve steps and units of non-invasively measuring cardiac cycle period, electrical-mechanical interval, mean arterial pressure, and ejection interval and co... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7623912 | Method, apparatus and system for characterizing sleep A method of determining sleep stages from signals of electrical activity recorded of a chest of a sleeping subject, the signals being measured over a plurality of epochs. The method comprising: (a) extracting a series of cardiac R-R intervals from the signals and ob... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7610085 | Simplified ECG monitoring system A simplified device and method for continuous ECG monitoring incorporates electrodes in a pulse oximeter finger probe and/or in a blood pressure cuff. The electrodes in the pulse oximeter and blood pressure cuff generate a continuous ECG tracing without the use of d... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7570989 | Method and apparatus for signal assessment including event rejection An improved method and apparatus for non-invasively assessing one or more physiologic parameters, such as for example those associated with the circulatory system of a living organism. In one exemplary embodiment, the invention evaluates cardiac events (e.g., beats)... | 08/04/2009 |
