Cardio-function cafeteria system and methodology

• US 20070038137A1
• Filed: 05/25/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
• Inventors: Warner, Robert, Bauer, Peter, Arand, Patricia
• Application Number:
  US11/442,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038137A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/349 Detecting specific parameters of the electrocardiograph cycle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/04 Electric stethoscopes microphones, acoustic transducers therefor H04R
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/06 Measuring blood flow measuring volume flow in general G01F, e.g. G01F1/66, G01F1/72; measuring speed of fluids in general G01P5/00

Abstract

A computer-based cafeteria system, accessible through a user interface, and a related methodology, for gathering, handling, observing, presenting and addressing cardio-function data from a selected patient. The methodology-implementing system includes: (a) structure for collecting, over extended time, plural-heartbeat, cardio-function data, including ECG and heart-sound data; (b) a computer connected to the collecting structure for receiving and associating selected elements of collected data so as to offer, via user-selection, a display output potentially including (a) graphical, numeric, and textual information, and (b) blends thereof, an opportunity to assess the presence and character of a cardio-function condition of the subject patient'"'"'s heart, including especially the detectable presence of cardio-function trend behavior of that heart useable to implement constructive cardio-function intervention; and (c) display output structure connected to the computer for presenting an assessment-relevant cardio-function-condition display (a) of such associated data, (b) of selected elements thereof, and (c) of detected cardio-function trend behavior.

Claims

1. A computer-based cafeteria system, accessible through an included user interface, for gathering, handling, observing and presenting cardio-function data from a selected subject patient, and for utilizing that data to effect constructive and corrective, data-trend-based, cardio-function intervention, said system comprising

structure operatively connectable to, for collecting from, such a patient, in electrical signal form, relevant, plural-heartbeat, cardio-function data, including ECG and heart-produced acoustic data,

computer data-processing apparatus operatively connected to said collecting structure for receiving, and in a system-user-selectable/directable manner, inter-associating, through processing, selected elements of such collected data so as to offer, via user-selected printed and/or screen-presented display output, made available in image forms including (a) graphical, numeric, and textual styles, and (b) blends of such styles, an opportunity to assess the presence and character of a user-reviewable, cardio-function condition of the selected subject patient'"'"'s heart, including the detectable presence of cardio-function-condition trend behavior of that heart, useable to effect/implement constructive and corrective cardio-function intervention, and

display output structure operatively connected to said data-processing apparatus, activatible by a user to present an assessment-relevant, singular, or selectively multi-faceted, cardio-function-condition display (a) of such inter-associated data, (b) of selected elements thereof, and (c) of such detected cardio-function-condition trend behavior.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said display output structure includes at least one of (a) printing structure, and (b) electronic screen-display structure.

3. The system of claim 1 which forms part of a feedback loop that also includes (a) the selected subject patient, and (b) a cardio-function control-parameter changer which, in this loop, is structured to act, on the basis of offered display output, as a link to constructive and corrective intervention relative to, and in response to, a system-observed, negative cardio function of the selected patient'"'"'s heart, as reflected in detected cardio-function-condition trend behavior

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said computer data-processing apparatus is constructed to offer display output including, as illustrations, (a) direct waveform display of collected ECG and heart-produced acoustic data, and (b) selected waveform display snippets of ECG and heart-produced acoustic waveform data.

5. The system of claim 4 which further includes prepared-intelligence, algorithmic, cardio-function analysis and interpretation structure operatively associated with, and accessible by, said data-processing apparatus, and wherein said data-processing apparatus is further constructed, via use of said analysis and interpretation structure, to offer display output including (a) cardio-function correlation data, (b) external-analysis-readied cardio-function data, (b) computer-analysis-suggested cardio-function data, (c) computer-analyzed cardio-function data, (d) poised-for-computer-action, computer-analyzed, cardio-function-condition data, and (e) computer-analyzed, cardio-function-condition, trend-behavior data.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the (a), (b), and (c) types of data mentioned therein are based upon observed, cardio-function trend behavior.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein a heart-related control-parameter changer is operatively connected to a subject patient, and the mentioned trend-behavior data is based upon control-parameter parameter changes applied over time to the patient.

8. The system of claim 7 which further comprises an operative link between said computer data-processing apparatus and the mentioned control-parameter changer, and the computer data-processing apparatus is further constructed to operate the control-parameter changer in relation to the computer-analyzed, cardio-function-condition, trend-behavior data.

9. A method for gathering, handling, observing and presenting cardio-function data from a selected subject patient, and for utilizing that data to effect constructive and corrective, data-trend-based, cardio-function intervention, said method comprising

in real time, gathering cardio-relevant cardio-functionality data from a subject patient including, over time, selected-category, cardio-functionality trend data,

utilizing such trend data in an implemented feedback manner to effect real-time changes in the subject patient'"'"'s cardio-functionality as evidenced by that trend data, and

while so implementing the mentioned feedback manner of utilization, continuing to gather and observe the same-category trend data so as to achieve, through utilization feedback, and related constructive and corrective intervention, improved cardio-functionality in relation to the associated trend data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said utilizing is performed in at least one of the manners including (a) manually, and (b) automatically under computer control.

11. A method for gathering, handling, observing and presenting cardio-function data from a selected subject patient, and for utilizing that data to effect constructive and corrective, data-trend-based, cardio-function intervention, said method comprising

gathering, over a selected period of time, real-time, cardio-relevant, patient-specific data, including ECG data and heart-produced acoustic data,

computer-processing such gathered data, including selectively applying cardio-condition-assessing algorithmic software to the data,

selectively display-presenting input and computer-processed data, along with, as desired, selected, algorithmically-assessed cardio-condition data, in forms including at least one of the categories of (a) plural-heartbeat waveforms, (b) single-heartbeat waveform snippets, (c) cardio-condition trend data, (d) numeric data, and (e) textual data, with or without accompanying judgment comment based upon computer-implemented assessment of such data,

selectively enabling manual, or computer-directed-automatic, constructive and corrective feedback-intervention relative to a subject patient based upon selected trend data so as to improve a selected-trend aspect of the subject patient'"'"'s cardio-functionality by producing observable changes in such functionality, and

confirming such improvement by continuing to gather, present and observe relevant cardio-condition selected-trend data.