APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING A PATIENT'S VOLEMIC STATUS REPRESENTED BY CARDIOPULMONARY BLOOD VOLUME
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Abstract
An apparatus for determining a patient'"'"'s volemic status can make use of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation. Further, a computer program for determining the patient'"'"'s volemic status has instructions for carrying out the steps of generating data of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation, and determining the patient'"'"'s volemic status when making use of the data of the physiological heart-lung interaction, when run on a computer.
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45 Claims
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40. A method for using electronic computer processing apparatus to determine a volemic status of a medical patient, the method comprising:
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providing the apparatus with data reflecting the patient'"'"'s arterial pulse pressure; using the apparatus to determine an arterial pulse pressure envelope from the provided data reflecting the patient'"'"'s arterial pulse pressure, wherein a value of said arterial pulse pressure envelope is defined for any single heart beat pulse as the difference between the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure for that given pulse; estimating the patient'"'"'s cardiac output; and using the apparatus to compute an estimate of an internal blood volume of the patient as a product of the patient'"'"'s estimated cardiac output and an estimated internal blood transit time, wherein said internal blood transit time is estimated by the apparatus based on the determined arterial pulse pressure envelope. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42)
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43. Electronic apparatus for determining a volemic status of a medical patient, the apparatus comprising computer processor apparatus programmed to:
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receive data reflecting the patient'"'"'s arterial pulse pressure; determine an arterial pulse pressure envelope from the received arterial pulse pressure data, wherein a value of said arterial pulse pressure envelope is defined for any single heart beat pulse as the difference between the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure for that given pulse; receive data reflecting the patient'"'"'s cardiac output; compute an estimate of an internal blood volume of the patient as a product of the patient'"'"'s cardiac output and an estimated internal blood transit time, wherein said internal blood transit time is estimated by the processor apparatus based on the determined arterial pulse pressure envelope. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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