SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING ALARMS IN A WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE
First Claim
1. An ambulatory medical device for monitoring and treating a cardiac abnormality of a patient comprising:
- one or more ECG sensors for detecting the cardiac abnormality of the patient;
one or more therapy electrodes for treating the cardiac abnormality of the patient; and
a controller configured todetect an occurrence of an event comprising the cardiac abnormality of the patient;
adapt at least one alarm based on an adaptation path;
issue a first instance of the alarm in response to detecting the occurrence of the event;
adapt one or more frequencies of the alarm according to the adaptation path, wherein the adapted one or more frequencies enable the patient to hear the alarm in the presence of inhibiting factors;
issue a second instance of the alarm if the patient has not responded to the first instance of the alarm; and
deliver a therapeutic shock via the therapy electrodes if the patient does not respond to the second instance of the alarm.
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Abstract
According to another example, a wearable medical device controller is provided. The device controller includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine a correlation between a phenomenon identifiable by the wearable medical device controller and at least one response pattern associated with a patient and store, responsive to detecting the correlation, an adaptation path to address the at least one response pattern, the adaptation path specifying an adaptation of at least one characteristic of an alarm. The at least one response pattern may include a plurality of response patterns and the adaptation path may reflect adaptations made to address at least some of the plurality of response patterns.
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23 Claims
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1. An ambulatory medical device for monitoring and treating a cardiac abnormality of a patient comprising:
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one or more ECG sensors for detecting the cardiac abnormality of the patient; one or more therapy electrodes for treating the cardiac abnormality of the patient; and a controller configured to detect an occurrence of an event comprising the cardiac abnormality of the patient; adapt at least one alarm based on an adaptation path; issue a first instance of the alarm in response to detecting the occurrence of the event; adapt one or more frequencies of the alarm according to the adaptation path, wherein the adapted one or more frequencies enable the patient to hear the alarm in the presence of inhibiting factors; issue a second instance of the alarm if the patient has not responded to the first instance of the alarm; and deliver a therapeutic shock via the therapy electrodes if the patient does not respond to the second instance of the alarm. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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