Respiratory monitoring apparatus
AssigneeSmiths Medical International Limited
InventorsMichael L. Blomquist, Paul James Leslie Bennett, Anthony Lucio Belisario
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Abstract
A respiratory monitor including a sensor (200) responsive to substance in exhaled breath is mounted in or connected to a respiratory therapy device (100) of the kind that provides an alternating resistance to expiratory flow. The sensor (200) is exposed to biomarkers or other substances in exhaled breath. The vibration in the lungs produced by the therapy device (100) helps release an increased amount of the biomarkers or other substances in the exhaled breath.
Claims18
1-11. (canceled)
Respiratory monitoring apparatus including a sensor responsive to a biomarker in exhaled breath, characterised in that the apparatus includes a vibratory expiratory therapy device arranged to provide an alternating resistance to expiratory flow of the user, and that the sensor is located in an expiratory flow path such that it is exposed to vibratory expiratory flow from the user.
Respiratory monitoring apparatus including a sensor responsive to a substance in exhaled breath indicative of a disease, characterised in that the apparatus includes a vibratory expiratory therapy device arranged to provide an alternating resistance to expiratory flow of the user, and that the sensor is located in an expiratory flow path such that it is exposed to vibratory expiratory flow from the user.
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