Methods and systems for providing battery feedback to patient
AssigneeTc1 LLC
InventorsBrian Kimball, Charles Dague, W. Kevin Wu
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Abstract
A method for outputting a combined power source alarm for an implantable blood pump includes determining a status for each of first and second power sources of the blood pump. A combined power source alarm based on the statuses of the first and second power sources is outputted. A method for generating an alarm based on fault detections in a mechanically assisted circulation system includes processing a series of fault detection indications to classify a fault as active or inactive. An alarm is generated if the fault is active for more than a predetermined amount of time.
Claims17
A mechanically assisted circulation (MAC) system, comprising:
- a blood pump assembly;
- a control unit configured to control operation of the blood pump assembly;
- a blood pump assembly monitor module configured to detect a fault condition of the blood pump and generate a series of indications, each of the series of indications being indicative of whether the fault condition of the blood pump assembly is detected during a respective time period;
- a fault handler module configured to reclassify the fault condition from being inactive to being active in response to each of a first subseries of the series of indications being indicative of detection of the fault condition during the respective time period, the first subseries having a predetermined set soaking number of the series of indications;
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- an alarm handler module configured to generate an alarm for the fault condition in response to the fault condition being reclassified as active.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.