Respiratory distress stimulator system
AssigneeHoffmann-La Roche Inc.
InventorUlrich Anton Frank
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Abstract
A patient care system for monitoring respiratory distress problems and providing therapeutic treatment comprising, a sensor for generating patient derived respiratory activity signals, detecting an apnea episode from the signals, and providing in response to a detected apneic episode, stimulation of the patient by a momentary inflation or deflation of a pneumatic means adapted for placement under the patient to raise or lower the patient and induce thereby a loss of equilibrium for startling the patient into a natural respiration pattern.
Claims16
A patient care system for monitoring and treating respiratory distress problems, comprising:
- a. first means for sensing respiratory activity and generating electrical signals corresponding thereto;
- b. second means responsive to said respiratory activity signals for detecting a respiratory distress problem;
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- c. stimulating means, including fluid-inflatable means adapted for placement under a patient, and responsive to said second means for inducing a startling loss of equilibrium in the patient through a rapid momentary lowering action of a non-oscillatory type of said fluid-inflatable means.
A patient care system for monitoring and treating respiratory distress problems, comprising:
- a. first means for sensing respiratory activity and generating electrical signals corresponding thereto;
- b. second means responsive to said respiratory activity signals for detecting a respiratory distress problem;
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- c. stimulating means, including dual fluid-inflatable means each being adapted for placement on either side of and partially extending under a patient and third means for causing controlled alternate inflation and deflation of said dual fluid-inflatable means, and responsive to said second means for inducing a startling loss of equilibrium in the patient through a relatively rapid momentary rocking motion of a preselected portion of the patient's body by the alternate inflation and deflation of said dual fluid-inflatable means.
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