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US 2020/0390403 A1Published application
Monitoring, predicting and treating clinical episodes
AssigneeEarlysense Ltd.
InventorsAvner Halperin, Guy Meger
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Abstract
An apparatus having a sensor, a bed, and a control unit. The sensor is configured to sense a physiological parameter of a subject and generate a signal in response thereto. The control unit is configured to monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the physiological parameter and drive the bed to provide an intervention in response to the monitoring.
Claims71
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense a physiological parameter of a subject and generate a signal in response thereto;
- a bed;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the physiological parameter, and
- drive the bed to provide an intervention in response to the monitoring.
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Apparatus for use with a bed, the apparatus comprising:
- a sensor, configured to sense a physiological parameter of a subject and generate a signal in response thereto;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the physiological parameter, and
- drive the bed to provide an intervention is response to the monitoring.
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Apparatus for use with a bed that includes a sensor, the apparatus comprising:
- a control unit comprising:
- monitoring functionality, configured to monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing a signal indicative of a physiological parameter sensed by the sensor, and
- drive functionality, configured to drive the bed to provide an intervention in response to the monitoring.
Apparatus comprising:
- a motion sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject on a bed without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject Is wearing, and generate a motion signal in response thereto;
- a weight sensor, configured to measure a weight of the subject on a portion of the bed and generate a weight signal in response thereto;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- analyze the motion signal,
- in response to the analyzing, identify an aspect of the motion signal indicative of a possible need to generate an alert, and
- reduce an incidence of false alert by identifying whether a change in the weight signal is generally simultaneous with the identified aspect of the motion signal, and;
- if so, withholding driving the output unit to generate an alert, and
- if not, driving the output unit to generate an alert.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a motion sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject is wearing, and to generate a motion signal in response thereto;
- a weight sensor, configured to measure a weighs of the subject on the bed, and generate a weight signal in response thereto;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to analyse (a) changes in heart rate and respiratory rate by analyzing the motion signal, in combination with (b) changes in the weight signal, and to drive the output unit to generate an alert in response to the analysing of (a) in combination with (b).
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense a physiological parameter of a subject and to sense tremor of the subject;
- an output unit;
- and
- a control unit, configured to:
- monitor a condition other than tremor of the subject by analysing the physiological parameter and the sensed tremor, and
- drive the output unit to generate an alert upon detecting a deterioration of the monitored condition based on the analyzing of the physiological parameter and tremor.
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a motion signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to calculate a respiratory rate of the subject, based on the motion signal, utilising a clustering algorithm.
Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a motion signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to calculate respiratory-related motion of the subject based on the motion signal, correlate the respiratory-related motion with the motion signal, and identify a potential apnea event of the subject in response to the correlation.
Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject is wearing, and to generate a motion signal in response thereof;
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- a control unit configured to calculate respiratory-related motion of the subject based or the motion signal, identify a thoracoabdominal asynchrony event based on the respiratory-relation motion, and identify a potential apnea event of the subject in response to the identification of the thoracoabdominal asynchrony event.
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor for detecting a posture change of a subject;
- a user interface for receiving an indication that a clinician changed the posture of the subject;
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- a control unit that identifies when (a) detection of the posture change by the sensor and (b) receipt of the indication by the user interface, both occur within a window of defined duration.
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense a respiratory motion signal of a subject;
- an output unit;
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- a central unit configured to:
- monitor a non-rate respiratory pattern of a subject by analyzing the respiratory motion signal and so identify non-rate non-apnea respiratory patterns that are indicative of deterioration of a condition of the subject, and
- drive the output unit to generate on alert upon detecting deterioration of the condition.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense motion of a subject without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject is wearing;
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- a control unit configured to analyze the sensed motion and to identify thoracoabdominal synchrony in response thereto.
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor, configured to sense heart rate of a subject;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the heart rate, and to drive the output unit to generate an alert upon the control unit detecting an initially low level of heart rate variability of the subject followed by a sudden change in heart rate.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense motion of a subject without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject is wearing;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- responsively to the sensed motion, calculate respective raw values of a clinical parameter of the subject,
- calculate a representative value based on the raw values, and only upon finding that the representative value is at least a threshold percentage different from a baseline value for the clinical parameter, drive the output unit to generate an alert,
- wherein the control unit is configured to automatically adapt the duration of time during which motion Is sensed, based upon which motion sensing a given representative value is calculated, at a function of the calculated raw values.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a motion sensor configured to sense body motion of a subject and generate a modern signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured so analyze the motion signal and differentiate between body motion that Involves a pasture change and body motion that does not involve a posture change.
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a motion signal in response thereto;
- an output unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- analyze the motion signal, and
- in response to the analyzing and in response to having identified a likelihood that the subject is sleeping, drive the output unit to alert a clinician if the motion signal is indicative that the subject is no longer sleeping and is at an increased risk for falling out of a bed.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a single sensor configured to sense motion of a subject without contacting or viewing the subject or clothes the subject is wearing, and to generate a signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to analyze the signal to identify motion of the subject, and, in response, to determine whether the subject is in a bed.
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of whether a subject is in or out of bed;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit configured to drive the output unit to generate an alert if the subject has been out of bed for at least a defined period of time.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor assembly, configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a motion signal in response thereto, the sensor assembly comprising a plate and two or more piezo-electric sensors attached one on top of the other and coupled to the plate;
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- a control unit configured to calculate one or more clinical parameters in response to the motion signal.
Apparatus comprising:
- a mechanical sensor configured to generate a mechanical sensor signal;
- a camera configured to sense motion of a subject and generate a camera signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to:
- calculate a clinical parameter of the subject utilising at least one signal selected from the group consisting of:
- the mechanical sensor signal and the camera signal,
- process information derived from the mechanical sensor signal and the camera signal, and
- minimize error of the calculated clinical parameter by utilizing the processed information.
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense heart rate of a subject and an additional physiological parameter of the subject;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the heart rate and the physiological parameter, and
- drive the output unit to generate an alert upon detecting high variability of the heart rate that is accompanied by low variability of the additional physiological parameter.
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense heart rate of a subject and an additional physiological parameter of the subject;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- monitor a condition of the subject by analyzing the heart rate and the physiological parameter, and
- drive the output unit to generate an alert upon detecting (a) high variability of the heart rate associated with low signal quality of the sensed heart rate, that is accompanied by (b) high signal quality of the sensed additional physiological parameter.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor, configured to sense heart rate of a subject;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- receive an indication of a medication being taken by the subject,
- set a threshold automatically in response to the indication of the medication being taken, and
- generate an alert upon identifying a change of the heart rate beyond the threshold.
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Apparatus comprising:
- at least one sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject in bed and generate a motion signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to analyze noise characteristics of the motion signal and determine in response thereto a physical disposition of the subject.
Apparatus comprising:
- a sensor, configured to sense bean rate of a subject and generate a signal in response thereto;
- an output unit;
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- a control unit, configured to:
- drive the output unit to generate a sleep apnea risk alert upon the control unit detecting a periodic pattern of the heart rate signal.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a single sensor;
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- a control unit, configured so receive a signal from the single sensor, calculate an indication of pulse transit time between two sites of a subject, and derive an indication of blood pressure of the subject based on the pulse transit time.
Apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of sensors, configured to sense motion of a subject and generate motion signals in response thereto;
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- a control unit, configured to receive the signals, and, based on the signal from one of the sensors, calculate (a) a time of a feature of a cardiac cycle at the subject, and (b) a time of arrival of a pressure wave at a non-cardiac site of the subject, and derive the pulse transit time from (a) and (b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.