LIMB-WORN PATIENT MONITORING DEVICE
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes example systems, methods, apparatuses, and medical devices for obtaining physiological parameter data from a wearable patient monitoring device. An example patient monitoring device can include an emitter and a detector. The emitter can emit light through tissue of a patient. The detector can sense the light after it passes through and is attenuated by the tissue and can generate a signal indicative of the sensed light. When the patient monitoring device is attached to or worn by the patient, the emitter and detector are aligned such that the light from the emitter travels through an opening between a first bone and a second bone of the patient prior to being sensed by the detector.
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68 Claims
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1-48. -48. (canceled)
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49. A wearable patient monitoring device comprising:
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an emitter configured to emit light; and a detector configured to sense the light after it passes through and is attenuated by tissue of a patient and to generate a signal indicative of the sensed light, wherein, when the patient monitoring device is attached to the patient, the emitter and detector are aligned such that the light from the emitter travels through an opening between a first bone and a second bone of the patient prior to being sensed by the detector. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A wearable patient monitoring device comprising:
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a transmission pulse oximetry system configured to emit first light and generate a first signal; a reflective pulse oximetry system configured to emit second light and generate a second signal, wherein power consumed by the reflective pulse oximetry system to emit the second light is less than power consumed by the transmission pulse oximetry system to emit the first light; and a processor in communication with the transmission pulse oximetry system and the transmission pulse oximetry system, the processor configured to determine a physiological parameter based at least in part on at least one of the first signal or the second signal. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A method comprising:
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receiving a signal corresponding to a transmission pulse oximetry system of a wearable patient monitoring device, wherein the transmission pulse oximetry system comprises; an emitter configured to emit light through tissue of a patient, and a detector configured to sense the light after it passes through and is attenuated by the tissue and to generate the signal indicative of the sensed light, wherein, when the wearable patient monitoring device is worn by the patient, the emitter and detector are aligned such that the light from the emitter travels through an opening between a first bone and a second bone of the patient prior to being sensed by the detector; and determining a physiological parameter based at least in part on the signal. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68)
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