DETERMINING RESPIRATORY GAS EXCHANGE IN A SUBJECT
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides examples of a method, including: providing a representative inhale-exhale cycle breathing volume over time profile; and when the subject performs at least one inhale-exhale cycle that meets a correspondence criterion related to the representative profile, using data relating to oxygen consumption or carbon dioxide production during the inhale-exhale cycle that met the correspondence criterion to determine a metabolic property in the subject.
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47 Claims
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23. A method, comprising:
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obtaining data related to a current event; obtaining a representative inhale-hold-exhale cycle breathing volume over time data, where during which representative cycle, a subject'"'"'s gas exchange represents a metabolic state of the subject; obtaining a correspondence criterion related to the representative cycle; while the subject is under influence of the current event, monitoring a subject'"'"'s inhale-hold-exhale cycle breathing volume over time over one or more inhale-hold-exhale cycles; when the subject performs at least one inhale-hold-exhale cycle that meets the correspondence criterion related to the representative cycle, using data relating to oxygen consumption and/or carbon dioxide production during the inhale-hold-exhale cycle that met the correspondence criterion to determine a metabolic effect of the event on the subject. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An apparatus for determining a metabolic effect of an event on a subject, comprising:
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a storage module configured for storing data related to a current event; the storage module is configured for storing data relative to a representative inhale-hold-exhale cycle breathing volume over time data, were during which representative cycle, a subject'"'"'s gas exchange represents a metabolic state of the subject; the storage module is further configured to store a correspondence criterion related to the representative cycle; a processing unit configured to (i) determine when the subject performs at least one inhale-hold-exhale cycle that meets the correspondence criterion related to the representative breathing data, (ii) obtain data relating to oxygen consumption or carbon dioxide production during the inhale-hold-exhale cycle that met the correspondence criterion, and (iii) determine, based on the data relating to oxygen consumption and/or carbon dioxide production and based on the stored data related to the current event, a metabolic effect of the event on the subject. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for determining a metabolic effect of an event on a subject, the computer program product, comprising:
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computer readable program code for causing the computer to obtain data related to a current event; computer readable program code for causing the computer to obtain a representative inhale-hold-exhale cycle breathing volume over time profile during which cycle a subject'"'"'s gas exchange represents a metabolic state of the subject; computer readable program code for causing the computer to determine, while a subject is under influence of the current event, when the subject performs at least one inhale-hold-exhale cycle that meets a correspondence criterion related to the representative inhale-hold-exhale cycle breathing volume over time profile; and computer readable program code for causing the computer to use data relating to oxygen consumption and/or carbon dioxide production during the inhale-hold-exhale cycle that met the correspondence criterion to determine a metabolic effect of the event on the subject.
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