State change indication by matching instantaneous heart rate shape to shape change template
AssigneeFlint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
InventorsIvan Osorio, Mark G. Frei
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting and/or validating a detection of a state change by matching the shape of one or more of an cardiac data series, a heart rate variability data series, or at least a portion of a heart beat complex, derived from cardiac data, to an appropriate template.
Claims6
A method for detecting an occurrence of a seizure, the method comprising:
- obtaining via one or more medical devices a time series of cardiac data from a patient;
- selecting via the one or more medical devices at least one parameter from the cardiac data time series;
- selecting a time period;
- selecting a time scale for the selected time period where the selected time scale is one of a macroscopic time scale, a mesoscopic time scale, or a microscopic time scale;
- determining via the one or more medical devices a rate of change of a heart rate volatility;
- comparing a value relating to heart rate volatility to a reference state value for the selected time period;
- and
- indicating the occurrence of the seizure when the value relating to the heart rate volatility is different than the reference state value for the selected time period;
- wherein the value includes an inflection point.
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method for indicating an occurrence of a seizure, the non-transitory computer readable program unit being part of a medical device, the method comprising:
- obtaining via the medical device a time series of cardiac data from a patient;
- selecting via the medical device at least one parameter from the cardiac data time series;
- determining via the medical device a rate of change of a heart rate volatility;
- comparing a value relating to heart rate volatility to a reference state value for the selected time period;
- and
- indicating the occurrence of the seizure when the value relating to the heart rate volatility is different than the reference state value for a selected time period;
- wherein the value includes an inflection point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.