Method and apparatus for monitoring physiologic parameters conjunction with a treatment
First Claim
1. A system for correlating long-term changes in a patient'"'"'s arrhythmias, with an ICD, the system comprising:
- means for correlating changes between different trends;
means for integrating information stored in the ICD, relating to patient'"'"'s disease status, into said different trends;
means for isolating a single clinical measure over time;
means for providing a quick history of the patient'"'"'s disease status; and
means for viewing a clinical trend between a start- date and end date extending over the long-term implemented in the system to cooperate with said means for correlating, said means for integrating, said means for isolating and said means for providing such that clinicians may review and identify an exact time of tachyarrhythmia occurrence correlative to the patient'"'"'s symptoms.
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Abstract
A system including an implantable medical device and an associated external device, in which the implantable device is adapted to monitor a physiologic parameter and includes a telemetry system for transmitting information to and receiving information from the external device, including information regarding the measured physiological parameter and in which wherein the external device includes a telemetry system for receiving information from the implanted device and for transmitting information to the implanted device and is provided with a mechanism for receiving information indicative of occurrences of significant therapeutic events and is further provided with a display system which combines information received from the implantable device related to the monitored physiologic parameter with the information of therapeutic significance and for displays the combined information in a time-scaled display in which the measured physiologic parameter is displayed along a common time scale with indications of occurrences of the significant therapy related events. The implantable device may also include a mechanism for delivering a therapy; and the mechanism in the external device for receiving information indicative of occurrences of significant therapeutic events may receive information regarding changes in the therapy delivered by the implantable device. The mechanism in the external device for receiving information indicative of occurrences of significant therapeutic events may also or in addition receive information indicative of changes in the therapy delivered by a physician, e.g. changes in a drug therapy.
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8 Claims
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1. A system for correlating long-term changes in a patient'"'"'s arrhythmias, with an ICD, the system comprising:
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means for correlating changes between different trends;
means for integrating information stored in the ICD, relating to patient'"'"'s disease status, into said different trends;
means for isolating a single clinical measure over time;
means for providing a quick history of the patient'"'"'s disease status; and
means for viewing a clinical trend between a start- date and end date extending over the long-term implemented in the system to cooperate with said means for correlating, said means for integrating, said means for isolating and said means for providing such that clinicians may review and identify an exact time of tachyarrhythmia occurrence correlative to the patient'"'"'s symptoms. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for correlating long-term changes in a patient'"'"'s arrhythmias, with an implantable device and associated external device, the system comprising:
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the implantable device including;
means for transmitting information to and receiving information from the external device;
monitoring ineans for monitoring a physiologic parameter; and
means for providing information regarding the measured physiological parameter to the telemetry means for communication to the external device; and
wherein the external device including;
means for receiving information from the implanted device and for transmitting information to the implanted device;
means for receiving information indicative of occurrences of significant therapeutic events including information regarding changes in a drug therapy; and
display means for combining information received from the implantable device related to the monitored physiologic parameter with the information of therapeutic significance and for displaying the combined information in a time-scaled display wherein the measured physiologic parameter is displayed along a common time scale with indications of occurrences of the significant therapy related events. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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