摘要:
A telemedicine system for monitoring chronic conditions such as asthma or diabetes includes an electronic measurement device such as an electronic peak expiratory flow meter or an electronic blood glucose meter, connected to a GPRS cellular telephone. The cellular telephone automatically receives, formats and transmits the data on acquisition by the medical device to a remote server. The server may acknowledge the data and make the data available to a clinician. The server may also analyse the data and provide automatic alerts to the patient and/or clinician in the event of the data causing concern. The formatting and transmission of the data from the telephone to the server occurs in real time as the measurements are taken and is invisible to the patient.
摘要:
An apparatus for determining the concentration of an organic blood analyte in a body tissue sample, comprising:
(a) means for irradiating the sample with incident radiation containing a plurality of distinct, nonoverlapping spectral regions, all of said regions within a wavelength range of 1100 and 5000 nanometers within a beam path; (b) means for collecting reflected radiation emerging from the sample and directing said reflecting radiation along the beam path; (c) diffraction grating means disposed in the beam path for receiving reflected radiation emerging from the sample; (d) a linear detector array for receiving the passed wavelengths emerging from the diffraction grating means; (e) means for converting the detected wavelengths into a signal representative of the intensity of said wavelengths; and (f) means for correlating said signal representative of the intensity of said wavelengths to determine the concentration of the analyte and for measuring the intensity of radiation from said body tissue sample in the near-IR absorption spectrum, especially for water, for at least one of:
to provide a reference to detect inaccurate measurements; and to identify ineffective measurements arising from a failure to obtain a proper instrumentation scan of the tissue sample.
摘要:
Chest compressions are measured and prompted to facilitate the effective administration of CPR. A displacement detector produces a displacement indicative signal indicative of the displacement of the CPR recipient's chest toward the recipient's spine. A signaling mechanism provides chest compression indication signals directing a chest compression force being applied to the chest and a frequency of such compressions. An automated controller and an automated constricting device may be provided for applying CPR to the recipient in an automated fashion. The automated controller receives the chest compression indication signals from the signaling mechanism, and, in accordance with the chest compression indication signals, controls the force and frequency of constrictions. An ECG signal processor may be provided which removes the CPR-induced artifact from a measured ECG signal obtained during the administration of CPR.
摘要:
A method for measuring a blood constituent using data corresponding to a wavelength of electromagnetic energy transmitted through tissue of a patient comprises a) filtering the data such that motion and noise energy not at integer multiples of a heart rate of the patient are attenuated, thereby generating filtered data; b) comparing selected filtered data with at least one expected data characteristic; c) assigning one of a plurality of variable weights to each selected filtered data based on the comparing step thereby generating a plurality of differently weighted filtered data, the variable weights comprising a plurality of different non-zero numbers; and d) averaging a plurality of the differently weighted filtered data to obtain a twice-filtered data for use in estimating the blood constituent.
摘要:
A magnetic localization system including a magnetic field generator that generates an alternating magnetic field with a maintained frequency ; and a receiver comprising: a DC magnetometer to sense a local magnetic field, at least in part due to the generated magnetic field; and at least one processor that calculates a six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) position and orientation of the receiver relative to the generator, based on the sensed magnetic field and the maintained frequency, and optionally based on the momentary N phase of the generated field. Optionally, the generator includes an actuator that applies a rotational motion; at least one magnet rotating about a first axis by the actuator; a magnetometer to sense a momentary rotation phase of the at least one magnet; and a controller to maintain a desired rotation frequency of the at least one magnet. Optionally, the generator communicates the maintained rotation frequency and optionally the sensed momentary phase.
摘要:
The invention provides a method for filtering an invasive blood pressure (IBP) measurement signal based on use of a low pass filter with a frequency response curve which is adapted to exhibit shelving behavior, whereby a higher frequency portion of the passband exhibits greater attenuation behavior than a typical low-pass filter. This has the effect of suppressing underdamping and catheter whip artefacts without eliminating signal components at frequencies in the higher frequency portion of the passband.
摘要:
Disclosed are various examples and embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to provide enhanced resolution electrographic flow (EGF) spatial maps of a patient's heart, and subsequently to detect at least one location or type of at least one source, rotational phenomenon, or slow electrical conduction zone or area associated with at least one cardiac rhythm disorder within such maps. Data acquired using intracardiac electrodes and/or body surface electrodes are used in conjunction with EGF techniques to generate an enhanced resolution map corresponding to a spatial map. The enhanced resolution map is configured to reveal on a monitor or display to a user the at least one location or type of the at least one source, rotational phenomenon, or slow electrical conduction zone or area associated with at least one cardiac rhythm disorder.
摘要:
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for filtering pulse signal motion interference. The method comprises: irradiating a skin of a target human body in motion with a green light source in real time, so as to acquire a corresponding pulse signal from the target human body in real time; preprocessing the acquired pulse signal; and adaptively filtering the preprocessed pulse signal based on acceleration data of the target human body acquired in real time, so as to filter out a motion artifact interference of the pulse signal. The present disclosure can effectively improve the accuracy and effectiveness of filtering the pulse signal motion interference of a person in motion without a large amount of data, with a simple calculation process and without a plurality of PPG sensors, and can effectively improve the real-time performance for filtering the pulse signal motion interference, thereby greatly improving the accuracy and reliability of the heart rate measurement performed based on the pulse signal with the motion interference filtered out.