MEDICAL APPARATUS, PHISIOLOGICAL PARAMETER ANALYZING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160360973A1
• Filed: 05/31/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: UKAWA, Teiji
• Application Number:
  US15/168,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20160360973A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02416 using photoplethysmograph signals, e.g. generated by infrared radiation A61B5/14552 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02433 for infrared radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/349 Detecting specific parameters of the electrocardiograph cycle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7207 of noise induced by motion artifacts
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7221 Determining signal validity, reliability or quality A61B5/7207 and A61B5/7217 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick

Abstract

A medical apparatus includes a light emitter configured to emit light beams of different wavelengths to living tissue, a light detector configured to detect the light beams of different wavelengths emitted from the light emitter, an acquiring section that calculates absorbances of arterial blood for the respective light beams of different wavelengths based on the light beams detected by the light detector, that acquires a pulse waveform based on the absorbances, and that acquires a parameter corresponding to an oxygen saturation from a ratio of the absorbances, a detecting section that detects variation of the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation acquired by the acquiring section, and an evaluating section that evaluates the pulse waveform acquired for a purpose of pulse wave analysis by the acquiring section based on a result of the detection by the detecting section.

Claims

1. A medical apparatus comprising:

a light emitter that is configured to emit light beams of different wavelengths to living tissue;

a light detector that is configured to detect the light beams of different wavelengths emitted from the light emitter, through the living tissue;

an acquiring section that calculates absorbances of arterial blood for the respective light beams of different wavelengths, based on the light beams detected by the light detector, that acquires a pulse waveform based on the absorbances, and that acquires a parameter corresponding to an oxygen saturation from a ratio of the absorbances;

a detecting section that detects variation of the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation acquired by the acquiring section; and

an evaluating section that evaluates the pulse waveform that is acquired for a purpose of pulse wave analysis by the acquiring section, based on a result of the detection by the detecting section.

2. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation is an arterial oxygen saturation.

3. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation is the ratio of the absorbances.

4. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation is a function of the ratio of the absorbances which corresponds one-to-one to an arterial oxygen saturation.

5. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation of the pulse waveform is preformed by evaluating reliability of the pulse waveform itself.

6. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation of the pulse waveform is preformed by evaluating reliability of a physiological parameter that is acquired by pulse wave analysis performed on the pulse waveform.

7. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the evaluating section determines that the larger the variation, the lower the reliability.

8. The medical apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

an analyzing section that performs pulse wave analysis on the pulse waveform to acquire a pulse interval as a physiological parameter; and

a determining section that determines whether arrhythmia has occurred or not, based on the pulse interval acquired by the analyzing section.

9. The medical apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising an outputting section that outputs a physiological parameter that is acquired by performing pulse wave analysis on the pulse waveform.

10. The medical apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the outputting section selects a physiological parameter which is to be output, in accordance with the reliability.

11. The medical apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the outputting section outputs the physiological parameter together with the reliability.

12. A method for analyzing a physiological parameter, the method being used in a medical apparatus having a light emitter that is configured to emit light beams of different wavelengths to living tissue including arterial blood, and a light detector that is configured to detect the light beams of different wavelengths emitted from the light emitter, through the living tissue, the method comprising:

calculating absorbances of the arterial blood for the respective light beams of different wavelengths, based on the light beams detected by the light detector;

acquiring a pulse waveform based on the absorbances and a parameter corresponding to an oxygen saturation from a ratio of the absorbances;

detecting variation of the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation acquired in the acquiring; and

evaluating the pulse waveform which is acquired for a purpose of pulse wave analysis in the acquiring, based on a result of the detection in the detecting.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program executed in an apparatus for processing a physiological parameter obtained from a light emitter that is configured to emit light beams of different wavelengths to living tissue and a light detector that is configured to detect the light beams of different wavelengths emitted from the light emitter, through the living tissue, wherein the program cause the apparatus to executes:

calculating absorbances of the arterial blood for the respective light beams of different wavelengths, based on the light beams detected by the light detector;

acquiring a pulse waveform based on the absorbances and a parameter corresponding to an oxygen saturation from a ratio of the absorbances;

detecting variation of the parameter corresponding to the oxygen saturation acquired in the acquiring; and

evaluating the pulse waveform which is acquired for a purpose of pulse wave analysis in the acquiring, based on a result of the detection in the detecting.