Urodynamic device and procedure
AssigneeFranco Intelligent Agent Solutions
InventorIsrael Franco
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Abstract
A method performed by a computer correlates vesicoelastic pressure data with volume data and calculates vesicoelastic work performed by the bladder, wherein the amount of vesicoelastic work performed by the bladder is determined by calculating an area under said vesicoelastic pressure data when said vesicoelastic pressure data is correlated against the volume data.
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A method performed by at least one processing device and at least one memory device and at least one interactive user interface for use on a display for analyzing data from a urodynamic study, the method comprising:
- determining pressure data from individual pressure values from said urodynamic study that represents a pressure of liquid inside a bladder during a fill operation or a void operation, and storing said pressure data in said memory device;
- determining volume data from the urodynamic study that represents a volume of said liquid inside said bladder and storing said volume data in said memory device;
- using said processing device to correlate said pressure data with said volume data to form a pressure vs volume curve;
- displaying the pressure vs volume curve through the user interface;
- employing a linear regression to identify a best fit line to the pressure vs volume curve;
- adjusting the best fit line to provide an adjusted best fit line that resides at points of the pressure vs volume curve that represents vesicoelastic characteristics of a bladder;
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- displaying the adjusted best fit line with the pressure vs volume curve on a same graph to display a separation line between a detrusor function and an elastic bladder function.
A computing device for analyzing data from a urodynamic study, the device comprising:
- a memory device configured to store pressure data and volume data taken from said urodynamic study that represents a pressure of liquid and a volume of liquid inside a bladder during a fill operation or void operation;
- a processing device configured to retrieve said pressure data from said memory device and using said processing device to correlate said pressure data with said volume data to form a pressure vs volume curve, wherein the processing device is further configured to employ a linear regression to identify a best fit line to the pressure vs volume curve and adjust the best fit line to provide an adjusted best fit line that resides at points of the pressure vs volume curve that represents vesicoelastic characteristics of a bladder;
- a user interface that displays the pressure vs volume curve through the user interface and displays the adjusted best fit line on a same graph as the pressure vs volume curve to identify a separation line between the vesicoelastic characteristics of a bladder and detrusor characteristics of the bladder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.