Detection appliance and method for observing sleep-related breathing disorders
First Claim
1. Mobile detection appliance with sensor device for acquiring a respiratory flow signal that is indicative of the respiratory gas flow, in addition to an electronic data processing unit which comprises a memory device and is used to process the respiratory flow signals that are indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signal;
- said data processing unit being configured in such a way that it stores data that is indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signal.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a detection appliance and a method for detecting and evaluating a measuring signal that is indicative of the breathing of a sleeping person, in connection with the observation of sleep-related breathing disorders. The invention also relates to instruments for detecting signals that are indicative of the breathing of a patient. One aspect of the invention is to provide solutions that enable an especially reliable examination in terms of the occurrence of sleep-related sleeping disorders, especially in the usual surroundings of the person concerned. To this end, in a first embodiment, a mobile detection appliance includes a sensor device for detecting a nasal flow signal that is indicative of a nasal respiratory gas flow, and/or a respiratory flow signal that is indicative of an oral respiratory gas flow, in addition to an electronic data processing unit that includes a memory device and is used to process the respiratory flow signals that are indicative of the temporal course of the nasal and oral respiration. The data processing device is configured in such a way that it stores data that is indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signals.
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37 Claims
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1. Mobile detection appliance with sensor device for acquiring a respiratory flow signal that is indicative of the respiratory gas flow, in addition to an electronic data processing unit which comprises a memory device and is used to process the respiratory flow signals that are indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signal;
said data processing unit being configured in such a way that it stores data that is indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11-26. -26. (canceled)
- 27. Method for the provision of an evaluation result that is indicative of the physiological state and is based on measurement signals associated with the respiration of a person, where evaluation characteristics are generated from said measurement signals through the use of several analysis systems and a least one evaluation result is generated from a result generation step based thereon in which the evaluation characteristics are subjected to an associative analysis, whereby said measurement signals are acquired by a mobile detection appliance in the course of a signal acquisition phase preceding the analysis.
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37-64. -64. (canceled)
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