Therapeutic device including acoustic sensor
AssigneeZOLL Medical Corporation
InventorThomas E. Kaib
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Abstract
A therapeutic device comprises a therapy electrode that includes a substrate, a conductive layer disposed on a lower surface of the substrate, an electrically conductive gel reservoir configured to release an electrically conductive gel onto a surface of the conductive layer, and an acoustic sensor coupled to the therapy electrode. The acoustic sensor is configured to acoustically couple to a body of a subject to which the therapy electrode is applied and to detect sounds indicative of a state of health of the subject. The therapeutic device is configured to transmit data regarding the sounds detected by the acoustic sensor to an external system for processing and analysis.
Claims29
A therapeutic device comprising:
- a therapy electrode including:
- a substrate;
- a conductive layer disposed on a lower surface of the substrate;
- an electrically conductive gel reservoir configured to release an electrically conductive gel onto a surface of the conductive layer;
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- an acoustic sensor coupled to the therapy electrode, the acoustic sensor configured to acoustically couple to a body of a subject to which the therapy electrode is applied and to detect sounds indicative of a state of health of the subject,
- the therapeutic device configured to transmit data regarding the sounds detected by the acoustic sensor to an external system for processing and analysis.
A therapy electrode system comprising:
- a substrate;
- a conductive layer disposed on a lower surface of the substrate;
- an electrically conductive gel reservoir configured to release an electrically conductive gel onto a surface of the conductive layer;
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- an acoustic sensor coupled to the therapy electrode, the acoustic sensor configured to acoustically couple to a body of a subject to which the therapy electrode is applied and to detect sounds made by the subject's heart;
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- a control unit coupled to the acoustic sensor and configured to wirelessly transmit data regarding the sounds made by the subject's heart to an external system for processing and analysis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.