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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8109883 | Cable monitoring apparatus A cable monitoring apparatus includes a housing having an input interface adapted to electrically connect to one end of a medical cable and an output interface adapted to electrically connect to a medical monitoring apparatus. Signal processing circuitry is incorpor... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096954 | Adaptive sampling of heart sounds A system and method to sense heart sounds with one or more implantable medical devices according to one or more parameters. The system alters one or more of the parameters as a function of one or more triggering events. The system then senses heart sounds with the o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8048001 | Method and apparatus for detecting atrial filling pressure A cardiac rhythm management system provides for ambulatory monitoring of hemodynamic performance based on quantitative measurements of heart sound related parameters for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Monitoring of such heart sound related parameters allows th... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8034000 | Ischemia detection using a heart sound sensor A system comprising an implantable medical device (IMD) includes an implantable heart sound sensor to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound. The heart sound is associated with mechanical activity of a patient's heart. Additionally, ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8025624 | System and method for assessing cardiac performance through cardiac vibration monitoring A system and method for assessing cardiac performance through cardiac vibration monitoring is described. Cardiac vibration measures are directly collected through an implantable medical device. Cardiac events including at least one first heart sound reflected by the... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8012098 | Determining a patient's posture from mechanical vibrations of the heart A system for determining a patient's posture by monitoring heart sounds. The system comprises an implantable medical device that includes a sensor operable to produce an electrical signal representative of heart sounds, a sensor interface circuit coupled to the sens... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007442 | Sensing rate of change of pressure in the left ventricle with an implanted device An implantable device and method for monitoring S1 heart sounds with a remotely located accelerometer. The device includes a transducer that converts heart sounds into an electrical signal. A control circuit is coupled to the transducer. The control circuit is confi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7998083 | Method and device for automatically determining heart valve damage A method and device for automatically detecting heart valve damage for four heart valves are proposed. The automatic determination method makes use of three or more heart tone microphones to simultaneously record heart tones of a patient's heart, and then separates ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7985186 | Method and device for automatically determining heart valve damage A method and device for automatically detecting heart valve damage for four heart valves are proposed. The automatic determination method makes use of three or more heart tone microphones to simultaneously record heart tones of a patient's heart, and then separates ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7972275 | Method and apparatus for monitoring of diastolic hemodynamics A cardiac rhythm management system provides for ambulatory monitoring of hemodynamic performance based on quantitative measurements of heart sound related parameters for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Monitoring of such heart sound related parameters allows th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963926 | Trending of systolic murmur intensity for monitoring cardiac disease with implantable device Described is an implantable device configured to monitor for changes in the intensity and/or duration of a systolic murmur such as mitral regurgitation by means of an acoustic sensor. Such changes may be taken to indicate a change in a patient's heart failure status... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7951087 | Method for correction of posture dependence on heart sounds A system to monitor heart sounds. The system comprises an implantable heart sound sensor configured to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound, an implantable posture sensor operable to produce an electrical signal representative of a... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7922669 | Ischemia detection using a heart sound sensor A system comprising an implantable medical device (IMD) includes an implantable heart sound sensor to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound. The heart sound is associated with mechanical activity of a patient's heart. Additionally, ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7909772 | Non-invasive measurement of second heart sound components A method and apparatus for estimating a location of pulmonary and aortic components of second heart sounds of a patient over an interval. The method comprises the steps of producing an electronic representation of heart sounds of the patient over the interval, ident... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7883470 | Apparatus and method for outputting heart sounds An apparatus for outputting heart sounds includes an implantable system and an external system. The implantable system includes a sensor for generating sensed signals representing detected heart sounds, an interface circuit and a control circuit for receiving the se... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7828740 | Noninvasive apparatus and method for estimating blood pressure Methods and apparatus for noninvasively estimating a blood pressure are provided. A pulmonic (P) component extracted from a second heart sound (S2) signal is analyzed to obtain a number of oscillations in the P component. A predetermined relationship between ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7819814 | Acoustic assessment of the heart A non-invasive method and apparatus for monitoring of the function of the heart and lungs in vulnerable patients. An analysis of the activity of the heart is made in correspondence to the respiratory system. Using the method of the invention, precise tracking of the... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7806833 | Systems and methods for analysis and display of heart sounds An auscultation system aids a clinician's diagnosis of the heart sounds by visually displaying at least an S1 heart sound and an S2 heart sound, and ascertaining an onset of at least one of the heart sounds. A corresponding audio representation of the ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7758512 | Electroactive polymer-based lumen traversing device Methods and devices are provided for traversing a lumen of a tubular body part, such as the large or small intestine, the colon, the bladder, the stomach, etc. In an exemplary embodiment, the methods and devices utilize electroactive polymers that are selectively ac... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7753856 | Method, device and system for cardio-acoustic signal analysis A method for cardio-acoustic signal analysis includes receiving a signal representative of heart sounds and displaying the signal in a time-perceptual frequency-perceptual loudness domain representation. The received signal is transformed to represent a time-percept... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7736319 | Ischemia detection using heart sound timing A system comprising a heart sound sensor to produce a heart sound signal representative of at least one heart sound. A signal analyzer circuit measures a baseline time interval between a first detected physiologic cardiovascular event and at least one second detecte... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7682316 | Implantable heart sound sensor with noise cancellation An implantable medical device system senses a first signal using a first acoustical sensor adapted to be operatively positioned in a first internal body location for sensing heart sounds in a patient. The system includes a second acoustical sensor adapted to be oper... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7670298 | Sensing rate of change of pressure in the left ventricle with an implanted device An implantable device and method for monitoring S1 heart sounds with a remotely located accelerometer. The device includes a transducer that converts heart sounds into an electrical signal. A control circuit is coupled to the transducer. The control circuit i... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7662104 | Method for correction of posture dependence on heart sounds A system to monitor heart sounds. The system comprises an implantable heart sound sensor operable to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound, a heart sound sensor interface circuit coupled to the heart sound sensor to produce a heart ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7615012 | Broadband acoustic sensor for an implantable medical device An implantable medical device (IMD) is adapted for detecting acoustic chest sounds. The IMD includes a pulse generator having a compartment, the compartment defining an isolated cavity bounded by a back wall. A diaphragm is disposed over and encloses the cavity. An ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7611471 | Heart diagnosis system The invention provides a method and apparatus for analysing a heart signal from a beating heart, the method comprising: collecting the heart signal, performing a cluster analysis of the signal to identify the first heart sound and the second heart sound, determining... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7585279 | Managing preload reserve by tracking the ventricular operating point with heart sounds A system and method for managing preload reserve and tracking the inotropic state of a patient's heart. The S1 heart sound is measured as a proxy for direct measurement of stroke volume. The S3 heart sound may be measured as a proxy for direct measurement of preload... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7575553 | Methods and systems for assessing pulmonary disease Sensing physiological conditions using the sensors of a respiratory therapy device can be used to assess a presence of pulmonary diseases other than breathing rhythm disorders. Non-rhythm related pulmonary diseases include, for example, obstructive pulmonary disease... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7559901 | Determining a patient's posture from mechanical vibrations of the heart A system for determining a patient's posture by monitoring heart sounds. The system comprises an implantable medical device that includes a sensor operable to produce an electrical signal representative of heart sounds, a sensor interface circuit coupled to the sens... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7520860 | Detection of coronary artery disease using an electronic stethoscope The disclosure describes an electronic stethoscope system that automatically detects coronary artery disease in patients. The system uses an electronic stethoscope to record acoustic data from the fourth left intercostal space of a patient. A processing technique is... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7517319 | Method and system for analyzing cardiovascular sounds A method and system for analyzing sounds originating in at least a portion of an individual's cardiovascular system. N transducers, where N is an integer, are fixed on a surface of the individual over the thorax. The ith transducer is fixed at a location xi | 04/14/2009 |
| 7479112 | Acoustic physiological sensor This document describes, among other things, a body having at least one acoustically detectable property that changes in response to a change in a physiological condition, such as ischemia. The body is positioned with respect to a desired tissue region. At least one... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479113 | Method and device for automatically determining heart valve damage A method and device for automatically detecting heart valve damage for four heart valves are proposed. The automatic determination method makes use of three or more heart tone microphones to simultaneously record heart tones of a patient's heart, and then separates ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7458939 | Procedure for extracting information from a heart sound signal A procedure for extracting features from phonocardiographic signals without the use of synchronizing information from electrocardiographic signals. The features extracted are the timing and value of first and second heart sounds and various combinations of timing an... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7441629 | Stethoscope with identifying-personalizing ring A medical stethoscope head (1) comprises a body (2) with an inlet pipe and at least one diaphragm portion (4) provided with a diaphragm (5) at its lower surface. At least one identifying-personalizing ring (11) provided with identi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438689 | Method for arbitrary two-dimensional scaling of phonocardiographic signals A heart signal comprising both first and second heart sounds and murmurs occurring due to various heart conditions is modeled by a sum of sinusoids automatically selected to represent the heart sound without a noise component. In an analysis step the signal paramete... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435224 | Extraction of heart sound of fetus from heart sound information that comprises plurality of mixtures of plurality of heart sounds of plurality of fetuses A heart sound analyzer component of an apparatus in one example extracts a heart sound of a fetus from heart sound information that comprises a plurality of mixtures of a plurality of heart sounds of a plurality of fetuses. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431699 | Method and apparatus for third heart sound detection A cardiac rhythm management system includes a heart sound detector providing for detection of the third heart sounds (S3). An implantable sensor such as an accelerometer or a microphone senses an acoustic signal indicative heart sounds including the second he... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424321 | Systems and methods for multi-axis cardiac vibration measurements A system to monitor heart sounds, such as to detect a worsening condition of heart failure decompensation. The system comprises a medical device that includes an implantable multi-axis heart sound sensor, operable to produce, for each of at least two nonparallel axe... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416531 | System and method of detecting and processing physiological sounds A system and method for detecting and processing physiological sounds. The method includes sensing physiological sounds to acquire analog physiological signals, where the acquired analog physiological signals corresponding to basic heart sounds and sounds of interes... | 08/26/2008 |
