Methods and Systems for the Treatment of Sleep Apnea
AssigneeFresca Medical, Inc.
InventorsJohn Cox, Ed McCarthy, Richard Ewers
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Abstract
A blower for the treatment of a patient's sleep apnea is disclosed. The blower includes a start/stop button, an air pump, and a processor connected to the start/stop button and air pump. A user may input a sleep period (Tsleep), an ultimate therapeutic pressure (TP) and an acclimation period (Nset). The processor performs an acclimation procedure to ease the patient in to the use of the positive airway pressure (PAP) system over the selected acclimation period.
Claims19
A blower for the treatment of a patient's sleep apnea, the blower comprising:
- a start/stop button;
- an air pump;
- a processor connected to the start/stop button and air pump, the processor configured to perform an acclimation procedure with the following steps:
- a. set a sleep period (Tsleep), an ultimate therapeutic pressure (TP), an acclimation period (Nset), and setting a day counter (Nday);
- b. When the patient presses the start/stop button:
- i. begin a timer (T);
- ii. set the air pump to deliver air pressure at a pressure based on ((Nday/Nset)×TP);
- iii. when patient presses start/stop button while performing step (b)(ii):
- (A) Stop delivering air pressure;
- (B) Pause T, and
- (C) If T<Tsleep, then return to step (b).
- (D) If T>=than Tsleep, and Nset>=Nday, then reset T, increase Nday and return to step (b).
A blower for the treatment of a patient's sleep apnea, the blower comprising:
- a start/stop button;
- an air pump;
- a processor connected to the start/stop button and air pump, the processor adapted to perform an acclimation procedure comprised of the following steps:
- a. receiving a sleep period (Tsleep), an ultimate therapeutic pressure (TP), and an acclimation period (Nset);
- b. wait for a patient to press the start/stop button, and once pressed setting the set the air pump to deliver air pressure at a pressure based on ((Nday/Nset)×TP);
- c. when the patient presses the start stop button after step (b), determining if:
- i. Tsleep has elapsed since the patients press of the start/stop button from step (b), if so increment a counter N, stop delivering air pressure and return to step (b);
- ii. Tsleep has not elapsed since the patients press of the start/stop button from step (b), if so then determine if the day counter N exceeds the acclimation period:
- i. If so, then stop delivering air pressure and exit acclimation procedure.
- ii. If not, then stop delivering air pressure and return to step (b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.