Monitoring and managing sleep breathing disorders
AssigneeP-Tech HM Ltd.
InventorsIlan AISIC, Naveh TOV
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Abstract
A method of monitoring a patient to identify a sleep breathing disorder, comprising: a) Collecting, using a handheld monitoring device, a plurality of respiratory sounds of a patient using one or more sensors which are connected to the handheld monitoring device. b) Recording environment noise during the sleep session and averaging the environment noise to set an average noise level. c) Calculating a dynamic threshold according to the average noise level. d) Deriving a plurality of amplitudes from the plurality of respiratory sounds according to the dynamic threshold. e) Identifying a sleep breathing disorder event by analyzing a pattern of the plurality of amplitudes.
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A method of monitoring a patient to identify a sleep breathing disorder, comprising:
- collecting, using a handheld monitoring device, a plurality of respiratory sounds of a patient during a sleep session using at least one sensor, said at least one sensor connects to said handheld monitoring device;
- recording environment noise during said sleep session and averaging said environment noise to set an average noise level;
- calculating a dynamic threshold according to said average noise level;
- deriving a plurality of amplitudes from said plurality of respiratory sounds according to said dynamic threshold;
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- identifying a sleep breathing disorder event by analyzing a pattern of said plurality of amplitudes.
A method of prioritizing diagnosis of sleep breathing disorder events of a plurality of patients, comprising:
- collecting a plurality of sleep session records from a plurality of patients using a plurality of client terminals;
- identifying a plurality of sleep breathing disorder events by analyzing said plurality of sleep session records;
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- prioritizing said sleep breathing disorder events in a priority order according to severity of said plurality of sleep breathing disorder events;
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- notifying at least one caregiver of said plurality of sleep breathing disorder events in said priority order by transmitting at least one alert to said at least one caregiver.
A system for monitoring sleep breathing disorders of patients, comprising:
- a monitoring module which collects a plurality of respiratory sounds of at least one patient using at least one sensor;
- a processing module which identifies a plurality of amplitudes derived from said plurality of respiratory sounds by dynamically adjusting a threshold to reduce environment noise;
- an analysis module which identifies at least one sleep breathing disorder event by analyzing a pattern of said plurality of amplitudes;
- a management module which aggregates said pattern for presentation to at least one caregiver for diagnosis;
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- an alert module which informs said at least one caregiver of said at least one sleep breathing disorder by generating at least one alert to said at least one caregiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.