Method for monitoring the condition of a patient
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring a patient and anticipating a change occurring in a condition of a patient'"'"'s organism before the condition of a patient reaches a critical point, said method comprising the steps of:
- monitoring and measuring at least one patient characteristic at specified time intervals to create a series of characteristic signals indicative of a condition of the patient'"'"'s organism;
applying a computational measuring method to at least two of the characteristic signals thereby creating at least one measuring result signal;
determining, according to the measuring result signal a change occurring in the condition of the patient;
predicting a future condition of the patient'"'"'s organism based on the change in the condition of the patient;
setting a limit value representing a predetermined critical point in the condition of the patient;
setting a predetermined period of time in which it is desired to track a future condition with respect to the limit value; and
generating a warning signal if a predicted future condition indicates that the limit value representing a predetermined critical point will be reached within the predetermined period of time, thereby indicating that the critical point is being approached by the monitored and measured patient characteristic thereby permitting preventive treatment to the patient.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for anticipating a change occurring in the condition of a patient'"'"'s organism before the condition of a patient reaches a critical point, the condition of a patient'"'"'s organism being monitored by the application of an appropriate measuring method and the determinations according to said measuring method being effected at appropriate time intervals. The measuring results obtained on the basis of effected measurements, the number of which must be at least two, or quantities derived therefrom are utilized for predicting the future development of one or more measuring results and, if a measuring result according to the prediction indicates that a limit value representing a predetermined critical point is reached in the condition of a patient within a predetermined period of time, a warning signal is released indicating that this critical point is being approached.
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17 Claims
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1. A method for monitoring a patient and anticipating a change occurring in a condition of a patient'"'"'s organism before the condition of a patient reaches a critical point, said method comprising the steps of:
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monitoring and measuring at least one patient characteristic at specified time intervals to create a series of characteristic signals indicative of a condition of the patient'"'"'s organism; applying a computational measuring method to at least two of the characteristic signals thereby creating at least one measuring result signal; determining, according to the measuring result signal a change occurring in the condition of the patient; predicting a future condition of the patient'"'"'s organism based on the change in the condition of the patient; setting a limit value representing a predetermined critical point in the condition of the patient; setting a predetermined period of time in which it is desired to track a future condition with respect to the limit value; and generating a warning signal if a predicted future condition indicates that the limit value representing a predetermined critical point will be reached within the predetermined period of time, thereby indicating that the critical point is being approached by the monitored and measured patient characteristic thereby permitting preventive treatment to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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