Therapy adjustment based on patient event indication
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsJonathon E. Giftakis, Peter J. Kovach, Warren W. Ball, Jonathan C. Werder, Nina M. Graves, David C. Ullestad, Sarah B. Alme
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Abstract
An indication that a patient event occurred may be used to evaluate the efficacy of at least one therapy program and/or adjust therapy delivery to the patient. In some examples, the patient event indication includes patient input that may be received via an event indication button of a programming device. In some examples, therapy delivery may be adjusted by adjusting at least one therapy parameter value, switching therapy programs or therapy program groups or restarting a therapy cycle of a medical device.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, with one or more processors, an indication of an occurrence of a patient event related to a condition of the patient;
- generating, with the one or more processors, an event marker based on the indication;
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- adjusting, with the one or more processors, therapy delivered by a medical device to the patient, wherein the medical device delivers therapy according to a therapy cycle comprising an on-cycle during which therapy is delivered to the patient and an off-cycle during which therapy is not delivered to the patient, and wherein adjusting therapy comprises:
- determining, with the one or more processors, whether the medical device is in the off-cycle or the on-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at a time based on the generation of the event marker;
- with the one or more processors, initiating the on-cycle if the medical device is in the off-cycle at the time, thereby shortening a duration of the off-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at the time;
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- with the one or more processors, restarting the on-cycle if the medical device is in the on-cycle at the time, thereby elongating a duration of the on-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at the time.
A system comprising:
- a medical device configured to deliver therapy to a patient according to a therapy cycle comprising an on-cycle during which therapy is delivered to the patient and an off-cycle during which therapy is not delivered to the patient;
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- one or more processors configured to receive input indicating an occurrence of a patient event, wherein the patient event is related to a condition of the patient, generate an event marker based on the indication, determine whether the medical device is in the off-cycle or the on-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at a time based on the generation of the event marker, initiate the on-cycle if the medical device is in the off-cycle at the time, thereby shortening a duration of the off-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at the time, and restart the on-cycle if the medical device is in the on-cycle at the time, thereby elongating a duration of the on-cycle of the therapy cycle implemented by the medical device at the time.
A method comprising:
- receiving, with one or more processors, an indication of an occurrence of a patient event related to a condition of a patient;
- generating, with the one or more processors, an event marker based on the indication;
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- adjusting, with the one or more processors, therapy delivered by a medical device to the patient based on the event marker, wherein the medical device delivers therapy to the patient substantially continuously or at regular intervals without relying on feedback from a therapy system.
A therapy system comprising:
- a medical device configured to deliver therapy to a patient substantially continuously or at regular intervals without relying on feedback from the therapy system;
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- one or more processors configured to receive input indicating an occurrence of a patient event, generate an event marker based on the indication, and adjust the therapy delivered by the medical device to the patient based on the event marker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.