Method for noninvasive monitoring and control of blood pressure

• US 6,050,952 A
• Filed: 01/14/1998
• Issued: 04/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: A-Hamid Hakki, Perry B. Hudson, Said I. Hakky
• Original Assignee: A-Hamid Hakki, Perry B. Hudson, Said I. Hakky
• Inventors: Hakki, A-Hamid, Hakky, Said I., Hudson, Perry B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dvorak, Linda C. M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): YARNELL, BRYAN KEITH
• Application Number:
  US09/006,646
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 600/9, 600/13, 600/481-486, 600/490, 600/500, 607/1-3, 607/44, 607/115
• US Class Current: 600/485
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6822 Neck
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/326 for promoting growth of cells, e.g. bone cells
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/40 Applying electric fields by inductive or capacitive coupling microwave apparatus A61N5/00; Applying radio-frequency signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/00 Ultrasound therapy lithotripsy A61B17/22, A61B17/225; massage using supersonic vibration A61H23/00 ; using ultrasound for introducing media into the body A61M37/0092

Abstract

A method of monitoring and controlling blood pressure wherein blood pressure is non-invasively monitored and an electromagnetic stimulus applied to a patient'"'"'s baro-receptors responsive to the monitored blood pressure being above a predetermined value. The stimulation of the patient'"'"'s baro-receptors has a blood pressure reducing effect.

Claims

1. A therapeutic method of controlling blood pressure in a patient comprising the steps of:

noninvasively monitoring the patient'"'"'s blood pressure;

detecting a rise in the patient'"'"'s blood pressure above a predetermined value;

noninvasively applying a programmed electromagnetic stimulus to baro-receptors of the patient responsive to said detected rise in the patient'"'"'s blood pressure, said electromagnetic stimulus being applied through at least one electrode externally coupled to the patient, said electromagnetic stimulus having a frequency in the approximating range of 0.5-30 MHz to alleviate said detected rise in blood pressure.

2. A method for the noninvasive monitoring and controlling of blood pressure in a patient comprising the steps of:

a. providing a programmable baro-stimulator device;

b. noninvasively sensing the patient'"'"'s blood pressure on each side of the patient'"'"'s neck;

c. signaling said sensed blood pressure to said baro-stimulator device;

d. generating electromagnetic stimulation output signals in said baro-stimulator device according to specific programmed parameters responsive to said sensed blood pressure exceeding a predetermined value; and

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e. noninvasively directing said electromagnetic stimulation output signals to baro-receptors in the patient'"'"'s arterial system through the patient'"'"'s carotid artery for effecting a reduction in the patient'"'"'s blood pressure, said electromagnetic stimulation being directed by at least one electrode externally coupled to the patient.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said step of generating electromagnetic stimulation output signals includes the step of generating signals having frequencies in the approximating range of 0.5 to 30 MHz.