Wearable monitoring and treatment device
AssigneeZOLL Medical Corporation
InventorsShane S. Volpe, Thomas E. Kaib
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Abstract
A wearable therapeutic device to facilitate care of a subject is provided. The wearable therapeutic device can include a garment having a sensing electrode. The garment includes at least one of an inductive element and a capacitive element, and a controller identifies an inductance of the inductive element or a capacitance of the capacitive element, and determines a confidence level of information received from the sensing electrode based on the inductance or the capacitance. The wearable therapeutic device also includes an alarm module coupled with the controller and configured to provide a notification to a subject based on the confidence level.
Claims32
A wearable therapeutic device, comprising:
- a garment that includes a sensing electrode;
- at least one of an inductive element and a capacitive element included in at least part of the garment;
- and
- a controller configured to determine a confidence level of information received from the sensing electrode based on at least one of an inductance of the inductive element and a capacitance of the capacitive element.
A method of facilitating care of a subject, comprising:
- providing a wearable therapeutic device that includes a sensing electrode;
- receiving, from the sensing electrode, information about the subject;
- determining at least one of an inductance of an inductive element and a capacitance of a capacitive element included in the wearable therapeutic device;
- and
- determining a confidence level of the information about the subject based on the at least one of the inductance of the inductive element and the capacitance of the capacitive element.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions including instructions that cause a processor to:
- receive, from a sensing electrode of a wearable therapeutic device, information about a subject;
- determine at least one of an inductance of an inductive element included in the wearable therapeutic device and a capacitance of a capacitive element included in the wearable therapeutic device;
- and
- determine a confidence level of the information about the subject based on at least one of the inductance of the inductive element and the capacitance of the capacitive element.
A wearable therapeutic device to be worn by a subject, comprising:
- a garment that includes an electrode;
- at least one of an inductive element and a capacitive element included in the garment;
- and
- a controller configured to determine at least one of an inductance of the inductive element and a capacitance of the capacitive element, and determine that the electrode is properly positioned on the subject based on the at least one of the inductance of the inductive element and the capacitance of the capacitive element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.