Assessment of organs for transplant, xenotransplant, and predicting time of death
AssigneeThe Nutrition Solutions Corporation
InventorMichaeal G. Singer
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Abstract
A method for determining illness, progression to death, and timing of death of a biological entity, in which whole body measurements of electrical impedance and composition of the biological entity are taken and recorded at predetermined intervals of time for providing initially measured values and serially measured values, and then the initially measured values are compared to normal values and to the serially measured values to determine hallmarks or characteristics of illness, progression to death and timing to death of the biological entity.
Claims17
A method for determining illness of a biological entity, progression to death of said biological entity, or timing of death of said biological entity, comprising the steps of:
- providing normal values of resistance, reactance, phase angle, extracellular water volume, and intracellular water volume of the whole body of the biological entity;
- measuring initial values of resistance, phase angle, extracellular water volume, and intracellular water volume of the whole body of the biological entity;
- taking whole body measurements of phase angle, extracellular water volume, and intracellular water volume at predetermined intervals of time;
- recording said whole body measurements;
- comparing initial values of said whole body measurements to said normal values of said whole body measurements and to serially measured values of said whole body measurements;
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- determining from said comparison steps hallmarks of said illness of said biological entity, said progression to said death of said biological entity, or said timing of death of said biological entity.
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