System and method for managing respiratory insufficiency in conjunction with heart failure assessment

A method for managing respiratory insufficiency in conjunction with heart failure assessment, comprising:

• assembling physiological measures, which were directly recorded as data on a substantially continuous basis by a medical device for a patient or indirectly derived from the data;
• determining a patient status indicator for the patient through sampling and analysis of the physiological measures over a plurality of data assembly points;
• and
• evaluating the physiological measures relative to the patient status indicator for determining a patient status trend comprising one of a status quo and a change in at least one of cardiac performance and respiratory performance and comparing the patient status trend to applicable indications of worsening heart failure and respiratory insufficiency;
• defining stickiness indicators comprising a temporal bound on change of one or more of the physiological measures;
• evaluating a time span of the patient status change;
• and
• revising patient treatment in a manner corresponding to a rate of the patient status trend over the time span.

A system for evaluating a patient status from sampled physiometry for use in respiratory insufficiency management and heart failure assessment, comprising:

• a storage module to store physiological measures comprising at least one of direct measures regularly recorded on a substantially continuous basis by a medical device for a patient and measures derived from the direct measures;
• a sampling module to sample at least one of those of the physiological measures, which each relate to a same type of physiometry, and those of the physiological measures, which each relate to a different type of physiometry;
• a status module to determine a wellness indicator for the patient through analysis of those sampled physiological measures assembled from a plurality of recordation points;
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• an evaluation module to evaluate the sampled physiological measures, comprising:
• an analysis module to identify a patient status trend comprising one of a status quo and a change, which affects one or more of cardiac performance and respiratory performance of the patient, wherein the evaluation module further evaluates a time span over which the patient status trend occurs;
• a comparison module to compare the patient status to applicable indications of worsening heart failure and respiratory insufficiency to generate a notification of parameter violations;
• an indicator module to define stickiness indicators comprising a temporal bound on change of one or more of the physiological measures, and
• a revision module to revise patient treatment in a manner corresponding to a rate of the patient status trend over the time span.

A method for evaluating a patient status from sampled physiometry for use in respiratory insufficiency management and heart failure assessment, comprising:

• storing physiological measures comprising at least one of direct measures regularly recorded on a substantially continuous basis by a medical device for a patient and measures derived from the direct measures;
• sampling at least one of those of the physiological measures, which each relate to a same type of physiometry, and those of the physiological measures, which each relate to a different type of physiometry;
• determining a wellness indicator for the patient through analysis of those sampled physiological measures assembled from a plurality of recordation points;
• and
• evaluating the sampled physiological measures, comprising:
• identifying a patient status trend comprising one of a status quo and a change, which affects one or more of cardiac performance and respiratory performance of the patient;
• and
• comparing the patient status to applicable indications of worsening heart failure and respiratory insufficiency to generate a notification of parameter violations;
• defining stickiness indicators comprising a temporal bound on change of one or more of the physiological measures;
• evaluating a time span of the patient status change;
• and
• revising patient treatment in a manner corresponding to a rate of the change over the time span.