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MONITORING, PREDICTING AND TREATING CLINICAL EPISODES

  • US 20110046498A1
  • Filed: 11/03/2010
  • Published: 02/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for use with a subject who is undergoing respiration, the apparatus comprising:

  • a motion sensor configured to sense motion of a subject;

    a control unit comprising;

    a breathing pattern analysis unit that is configured to analyze components of the sensed motion that result from the subject'"'"'s respiration, the breathing pattern analysis unit comprising;

    double-movement-respiration-cycle-pattern-identification functionality that is configured to designate respiration cycles as being double-movement-respiration-cycles by determining that the cycles define two subcycles;

    double-movement-respiration-cycle-event-identification functionality configured to identify a double-movement-respiration-cycle event by detecting that the subject has undergone a plurality of double-movement-respiration-cycles; and

    output-generation functionality configured to generate an output that is indicative of the subject having used accessory muscles in breathing, in response to identification of the double-movement-respiration-cycle event; and

    a user interface configured to display the output.

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