Monitoring, predicting and treating clinical episodes
US8734360B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 15, 2013 |
| Grant date | May 27, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 15, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B5/746
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are provided for use with a subject who is undergoing respiration. A motion sensor senses motion of a subject. A breathing pattern analysis unit analyzes components of the sensed motion that result from the subject's respiration. The breathing pattern analysis unit includes double-movement-respiration-cycle-pattern-identification functionality that designates respiration cycles as being double-movement-respiration-cycles (DMRC's) by determining that the cycles define two subcycles. Double-movement-respiration-cycle-event-identification functionality of the breathing pattern analysis unit identifies a DMRC event by detecting that the subject has undergone a plurality of DMRC's. An output is generated that is indicative of the subject having used accessory muscles in breathing, in response to identification of the double-movement-respiration-cycle event. Other embodiments are also described.
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