公开(公告)号：US20170231504A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-17

申请号：US15343994

申请日：2016-11-04

Applicant: ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited

Inventor： Conor Heneghan ,  Alberto Zaffaroni ,  Philip De Chazal ,  Redmond Shouldice

IPC: A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/113

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for monitoring a person suffering from a chronic medical condition predicts and assesses physiological changes which could affect the care of that subject. Examples of such chronic diseases include (but are not limited to) heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and diabetes. Monitoring includes measurements of respiratory movements, which can then be analyzed for evidence of changes in respiratory rate, or for events such as hypopneas, apneas and periodic breathing. Monitoring may be augmented by the measurement of nocturnal heart rate in conjunction with respiratory monitoring. Additional physiological measurements can also be taken such as subjective symptom data, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and various molecular markers. Embodiments for detection of respiratory patterns and heart rate are disclosed, together with exemplar implementations of decision processes based on these measurements.