Nasal and oral respiration sensor
AssigneeVyaire Medical, Inc.
InventorsHeikki Haveri, Janne Ranta
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Abstract
An apparatus having a support structure, including two nasal flow passages aligned with one another and with respect to a nasal respiratory flow direction, and an oral flow passage disposed transverse to the two nasal flow passages, along an oral respiratory flow direction, the nasal flow passages and oral flow passages having thermistors to monitor a patient's respiration, and the apparatus having a thermistor for monitoring ambient conditions and an accelerometer for monitoring movement of the apparatus. The apparatus also detecting and distinguishing between oral and individual nasal air flows, and integration of the apparatus and monitored data with a network.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- measuring, by a first sensor device, a physiological parameter of a patient proximate to the first sensor device;
- responsive to measuring the physiological parameter, automatically broadcasting, by the first sensor device, a wireless advertisement signal configured to facilitate a pairing process between the first sensor device and a first monitoring device;
- receiving, by the first sensor device after broadcasting the wireless advertisement signal, a wireless request to perform the pairing process between the first sensor device and the first monitoring device;
- and
- automatically completing the pairing process responsive to receiving the wireless request.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a patient identifier of a first patient;
- automatically initiating, by a monitoring device, responsive to receiving the patient identifier, a pairing process to communicatively couple the monitoring device with a first sensor device from a plurality of sensor devices;
- detecting, after the initiation of the process, a wireless advertisement signal from the first sensor device, the wireless advertisement signal indicating that the first sensor device has received a physiological parameter from a patient and is ready to be paired to the monitoring device;
- pairing, responsive to the detecting, the monitoring device with the first sensor device;
- and
- receiving, responsive to the pairing, from the first sensor device, the physiological parameter, the physiological parameter being detected by the first sensor device prior to the monitoring device and the first sensor device being connected.
A system, comprising:
- a first monitoring device;
- and
- a first sensor device, the first sensor device comprising a memory and one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the first sensor device to:
- measure a physiological parameter of a patient proximate to the first sensor device;
- automatically broadcast, responsive to measuring the physiological parameter, a wireless advertisement signal configured to facilitate a pairing process between the first sensor device and the monitoring device;
- receive, after broadcasting the wireless advertisement signal, a wireless request to perform the pairing process between the first sensor device and the first monitoring device;
- and
- automatically complete the pairing process responsive to receiving the wireless request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.