External medical device that identifies a response activity
AssigneeZOLL Medical Corporation
InventorShane Volpe
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Abstract
An external medical device is provided. The device can include monitoring circuitry configured to sense physiological information of a patient and a controller with one or more input components. The controller can be configured to: detect one or more patient events based, at least in part, on the physiological information; notify the patient of the detection of the one or more patient events; and receive a patient response to the notification. The patient response can include a response activity identifiable by the input component, which is configured to test a psychomotor ability of the patient, cognitive ability of the patient, strength, balance, stability, and flexibility of the patient, and/or to substantially confirm that a person performing the activity is the patient.
Claims20
A patient monitoring system configured to test patient abilities, the system comprising:
- at least one physiological sensor configured to detect physiological signals of the patient;
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- at least one controller in communication with the at least one physiological sensor, the at least one controller comprising at least one input device and being configured to:
- receive and process the physiological signals of the patient from the at least one physiological sensor;
- identify at least one patient event in the received physiological signals of the patient;
- provide a first request for the patient to perform at least one first response activity identifiable by the at least one input device with an associated level of difficulty when the at least one patient event is identified;
- receive with the at least one input device an indication that the patient performed or attempted to perform the at least one first response activity using the at least one input device within a predetermined amount of time following the first request, wherein the at least one controller is configured to select the predetermined amount of time based, at least in part, on a severity of the identified at least one patient event;
- evaluate the received indication to identify a partial performance of the at least one first response activity or an incorrect performance of the least one first response activity;
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- provide a second request for the patient to perform at least one second response activity identifiable by the at least one input device when the partial performance of the at least one first response activity or the incorrect performance of the at least one first response activity is identified, wherein the at least one second response activity has a lower difficulty level than the at least one first response activity and/or is a different type of response activity than the at least one first response activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.