Method for acquiring respiratory disease-related analysis data, oximeter system, operation program product for oximeter system, oximeter, and oxygen supply system

An oximeter system comprising:

• a blood oxygen saturation detector for detecting blood oxygen saturation information of a subject;
• a body motion detector for detecting body motion information of the subject;
• a controller for causing the blood oxygen saturation detector to acquire the blood oxygen saturation information, and causing the body motion detector to acquire the body motion information at a predetermined sampling frequency concurrently and respectively sequentially;
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• a display unit for displaying data concerning the acquired blood oxygen saturation information and data concerning the acquired body motion information along a common time axis.

An oximeter system comprising:

• a blood oxygen saturation detector for detecting blood oxygen saturation information concerning a blood oxygen saturation of a subject;
• a body motion detector for detecting body motion information concerning a body motion of the subject;
• a controller for causing the blood oxygen saturation detector to acquire the blood oxygen saturation information, and causing the body motion detector to acquire the body motion information at a predetermined sampling frequency concurrently and respectively sequentially;
• an analyzer for analyzing a relation between a change in the blood oxygen saturation and the body motion of the subject based on data concerning the acquired blood oxygen saturation information and data concerning the acquired body motion information;
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• a display unit for displaying an analysis result by the analyzer.

An oximeter comprising:

• a blood oxygen saturation detector for detecting blood oxygen saturation information concerning a blood oxygen saturation of a subject;
• a body motion detector for detecting body motion information concerning a body motion of the subject:
• a storage for storing data concerning the blood oxygen saturation information and data concerning the body motion information therein;
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• a controller for causing the blood oxygen saturation detector to detect the blood oxygen saturation information, and causing the body motion detector to detect the body motion information at a predetermined sampling frequency concurrently and respectively sequentially, and causing the storage to store the detected blood oxygen saturation information data and the detected body motion information data therein.

An oxygen supply system comprising:

• an oximeter including:
• a blood oxygen saturation detector for detecting blood oxygen saturation information concerning a blood oxygen saturation of a subject;
• a body motion detector for detecting body motion information concerning a body motion of the subject:
• a storage for storing data concerning the blood oxygen saturation information and data concerning the body motion information therein;
• a controller for causing the blood oxygen saturation detector to detect the blood oxygen saturation information, and causing the body motion detector to detect the body motion information at a predetermined sampling frequency concurrently and respectively sequentially, and causing the storage to store the detected blood oxygen saturation information data and the detected body motion information data therein;
• an exercise time detector for detecting an exercise time when a significant exercise is presumed to have been conducted based on the body motion information data, referring to a predetermined reference value;
• a unit exercise amount calculator for sequentially calculating a unit exercise amount corresponding to a summation of the body motion information for a predetermined unit time based on the body motion information data;
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• an exercise amount sum calculator for calculating a sum of the unit exercise amount for the exercise time detected by the exercise time detector, and
• an oxygen supply device including:
• an oxygen supplier for supplying oxygen to the subject;
• a discriminator for discriminating whether the exercise unit amount or the sum of the unit exercise amount exceeds a predetermined threshold value;
• an oxygen flow rate calculator for calculating an oxygen flow rate required for the subject based on a relation between the unit exercise amount or the sum of the unit exercise amount, and a time-based change of the blood oxygen saturation;
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• an oxygen supply controller for causing the oxygen supplier to supply the oxygen in accordance with the oxygen flow rate calculated by the oxygen flow rate calculator if the discriminator discriminates that the exercise unit amount or the sum of the unit exercise amount has exceeded the predetermined threshold value.

An operation program product for an oximeter system provided with a blood oxygen saturation detector for detecting blood oxygen saturation information concerning a blood oxygen saturation of a subject, a body motion detector for detecting body motion information concerning a body motion of the subject, a storage for storing data concerning the blood oxygen saturation information and data concerning the body motion information therein, and a processor,

• the operation program product allowing a computer to execute the steps of
• causing the blood oxygen saturation detector to acquire blood oxygen saturation information of a subject and causing the body motion detector to acquire body motion information of the subject at a predetermined sampling frequency concurrently and respectively sequentially;
• causing the storage to store the detected blood oxygen saturation information data and the detected body motion information data therein;
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• acquiring the blood oxygen saturation information data and the body motion information data stored in the storage to analyze a relation between a change in the blood oxygen saturation and the body motion of the subject.