Method and apparatus for hemostasis and blood management
AssigneeHaemoscope Corporation
InventorsEli Cohen, Irene A. Navickas
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Abstract
A procedure for hemostasis and blood management, particularly for cardiovascular procedures, provides: sampling instructions, i.e., when to draw blood samples and how to pre-treat the blood samples, a decision tree to assist the interpretation of hemostasis analysis results allowing for the identification of various coagulopathies, and treatment suggestions related to the hemostasis analysis results. The analysis, interpretation and identification may be conducted by a suitably programmed computer.
Claims14
A method for hemostasis and blood product management during the course of a medical procedure, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a plurality of blood samples from a subject of the medical procedure, of the plurality of blood samples being drawn at pre-procedural, intra-procedural and post-procedural time periods;
- subjecting each of the plurality of blood samples to a hemostasis analysis to provide a hemostasis parameter associated with the each respective blood sample
- providing logically organized results analysis criteria in the form of a decision tree;
- evaluating the at least one hemostasis parameter in accordance with the logically organized results analysis criteria to provide at least one evaluation result;
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- selecting a hemostasis and blood management protocol based upon the at least one evaluation result.
An apparatus for hemostasis and blood management comprising:
- a blood hemostasis analyzer for providing a hemostasis parameter a computer comprising a controller, control program and a memory, wherein saidcomputer is coupled to the hemostasis analyzer through a communication link;
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- a decision tree associated with the blood hemostasis analyzer, the decision tree including analysis criteria relating a coagulopathy with the hemostasis parameter the decision tree being embodied within the control program of the computer and the controller being operable in response to the control program to relate the coagulopathy to the hemostasis parameter.
An apparatus for hemostasis and blood management comprising:
- means for determining a hemostasis parameter from a blood sample;
- means for analyzing the hemostasis parameter relative to logically organized analysis criteria analysis criteria for providing and analysis result that related the hemostasis parameter to a coagulopathy;
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- means for identifying a hemostasis and blood management protocol based upon the analysis result, wherein a communication link serves to couple the means for determining, the means for analyzing and the means for identifying.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.