Response mechanisms
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11642539B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US16230097

    申请日:2018-12-21

    摘要: A wearable medical device is provided for monitoring the cardiac health of a patient, for example, for indications of cardiac anomalies, where the device includes ECG sensors in electrical contact with the patient's body, therapy electrodes for providing electrical therapy to the patient's heart, and a control unit having at least one touch control with force sensor disposed on its housing for contacting with a finger. Signals from the touch control may be analyzed to identify force application below a first force threshold and at or above a second force threshold below the first force threshold, and, responsive to detecting such application of force, user input may be registered. User inputs to the at least one touch control may be used to delay therapy by the therapy electrodes.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE AND CARDIAC SYNCHRONIZATION MONITORING

    公开(公告)号:US20230134653A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17453281

    申请日:2021-11-02

    申请人: Eko Devices, Inc.

    摘要: Various methods and systems are provided for monitoring a pulmonary artery pressure and cardiac synchronization of a subject. In one example, a method includes acquiring at least one of electrocardiogram (ECG) data, phonocardiogram (PCG) data, and seismocardiogram (SCG) data from a subject via a digital stethoscope, inputting one or more of the ECG data, the PCG data, and the SCG data into a machine learning algorithm, and estimating at least one of a pulmonary artery pressure and a cardiac synchronization of the subject using the machine learning algorithm. In this way, the pulmonary artery pressure and the cardiac synchronization may be estimated using artificial intelligence and inputs that are non-invasively measured by the digital stethoscope, allowing conditions like heart failure and pulmonary hypertension to be more simply and reliably detected and monitored.

    Ultrasound imaging system and method

    公开(公告)号:US11617561B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US16756943

    申请日:2018-10-16

    摘要: An ultrasound imaging system is for determining stroke volume and/or cardiac output. The imaging system may include a transducer unit for acquiring ultrasound data of a heart of a subject (or an input for receiving the acquired ultrasound data), and a controller. The controller is adapted to implement a two-step procedure, the first step being an initial assessment step, and the second being an imaging step having two possible modes depending upon the outcome of the assessment. In the initial assessment procedure, it is determined whether regurgitant ventricular flow is present. This is performed using Doppler processing techniques applied to an initial ultrasound data set. If regurgitant flow does not exist, stroke volume is determined using segmentation of 3D ultrasound image data to identify and measure the volume of the left or right ventricle at each of end systole and end-diastole, the difference between them giving a measure of stroke volume. If regurgitant flow does exist, stroke volume is determined using Doppler techniques applied to ultrasound data continuously collected throughout a cardiac cycle.