Treatment guidance based on victim circulatory status and prior shock outcome
OwnerWeilun Quan, Gary A. Freemaninventors
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Abstract
A system for managing care of a person receiving emergency cardiac assistance is disclosed that includes one or more capacitors for delivering a defibrillating shock to a patient; one or more electronic ports for receiving signals from sensors for obtaining indications of an electrocardiogram (ECG) for the patient; and a patient treatment module executable on one or more computer processors to identify a phase in which a patient being monitored by the system is in relative to a time at which an adverse cardiac event for patient began.
Claims20
A system for managing care of a person receiving emergency cardiac assistance, the system comprising:
- one or more capacitors for delivering a defibrillating shock to a patient;
- one or more electronic ports for receiving signals from sensors for obtaining indications of an electrocardiogram (ECG) for the patient;
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- a patient treatment module executable on one or more computer processors to identify a phase in which a patient being monitored by the system is in relative to a time at which an adverse cardiac event for patient began.
A computer-implemented method for managing care of a person receiving emergency cardiac assistance, the method comprising:
- monitoring electrocardiogram (ECG) readings of the person using an electronic external defibrillator;
- identifying one or more values representative of ECG amplitude for the person;
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- indicating to an operator of the medical device a time since the person entered a state of needing medical assistance, the indicating being based at least in part on the identifying of one or more values representative of the ECG amplitude for the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.