System and method for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms and its use for heart failure therapy decision making and disease monitoring
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a cardiac data sample input module for receiving intracardiac electrogram data including cardiac depolarizations;
a cardiac data over-sampling and filtering module for generating a uniform data rate respiration data signal data from amplitudes of the depolarizations of the received intracardiac electrogram data;
a cardiac data resampling module for generating respiration signal data from the uniform data rate respiration data signal data;
wherein the respiration signal data represents a signal corresponding to the respiration for a patient.
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Abstract
An ICD processing system for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms obtained from implantable cardiac devices. The system may include both an implantable ICD device and an external processing system. Both the ICD module and the external processing system processing data to generate a representation for the respiration rate for a patient using intracardiac electrogram data obtained by the ICD device. The ICD module and the external processing module communicate with each other to pass collected patient data from the ICD module to the external processing system. The ICD module and the external processing module process the electrogram data to obtain an processed data representation of the respiration data which is used to estimate the respiration rate.
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27 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a cardiac data sample input module for receiving intracardiac electrogram data including cardiac depolarizations; a cardiac data over-sampling and filtering module for generating a uniform data rate respiration data signal data from amplitudes of the depolarizations of the received intracardiac electrogram data; a cardiac data resampling module for generating respiration signal data from the uniform data rate respiration data signal data; wherein the respiration signal data represents a signal corresponding to the respiration for a patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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obtaining peak-to-peak intracardiac electrogram signal data; generating respiration sample data from amplitudes of depolarizations in the peak-to-peak intracardiac electrogram signal data; interpolating the respiration sample data to create a processed respiration signal data having an over-sampled uniform sample rate; low-pass filtering the processed respiration signal data to generate a filtered respiration data signal; and sub-sampling the filtered respiration data signal at a desired rate to generate an estimated respiration data signal. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A computer data product containing computer readable data encoding instructions for implementing a computer implemented method comprising:
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obtaining peak-to-peak intracardiac electrogram signal data; generating respiration sample data from amplitudes of depolarizations in the peak-to-peak intracardiac electrogram signal data; interpolating the respiration sample data to create a processed respiration signal data having an over-sampled uniform sample rate; low-pass filtering the processed respiration signal data to generate a filtered respiration data signal; and sub-sampling the filtered respiration data signal at a desired rate to generate an estimated respiration data signal. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A system providing acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms obtained from implantable cardiac devices, the system comprising:
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a cardiac data sample input module for receiving intracardiac electrograms data, wherein the intracardiac electrograms data corresponds to a non-uniform sampled signal; a cardiac data over-sampling and filtering module for generating a uniform data rate respiration data signal data from the received intracardiac electrogram data; a cardiac data resampling module for generating respiration signal data from the uniform data rate respiration data signal data; wherein the respiration signal data represents a signal corresponding to the respiration for a patient and wherein the respiration signal data is used to provide an estimate for the respiration rate of a patient. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A method for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms obtained from implantable cardiac devices, the method comprising:
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obtaining peak-to-peak intracardiac electrograms signal data; generating respiration sample data from the peak-to-peak intracardiac electrograms signal data; interpolating the respiration sample data to create a processed respiration signal data having an over-sampled uniform sample rate; low-pass filtering the processed respiration signal data to generate a filtered respiration data signal; and sub-sampling the filtered respiration data signal at a desired rate to generate an estimated respiration data signal; and generating a estimated respiration rate and estimated respiration tidal volume from the estimated respiration sign. - View Dependent Claims (20, 22)
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21. A computer data product containing computer readable data encoding instructions for implementing a computer implemented method for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms obtained from implantable cardiac devices, the method comprising:
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obtaining peak-to-peak intracardiac electrograms signal data; generating respiration sample data from the peak-to-peak intracardiac electrograms signal data; interpolating the respiration sample data to create a processed respiration signal data having an over-sampled uniform sample rate; low-pass filtering the processed respiration signal data to generate a filtered respiration data signal; sub-sampling the filtered respiration data signal at a desired rate to generate an estimated respiration data signal; and generating a estimated respiration rate and estimated respiration tidal volume from the estimated respiration signal.
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23. A method comprising:
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obtaining an electrogram signal from implanted electrodes; measuring peak depolarization amplitudes of the electrogram signal; and using the peak depolarization amplitudes to form a first respiration signal. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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