Device, method and system for monitoring pressure in body cavities
First Claim
1. A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising sampling said signals at specific intervals, converting the pressure signals into pressure-related digital data with a time reference,identifying from said digital data features related to single pressure waves in said pressure signals,said identifying step including determination of a minimum pressure value related to diastolic minimum value and a maximum pressure value related to systolic maximum value, anddetermining at least one parameter of the single wave parameters elected from the group of:
- pressure amplitude=Δ
P=[(maximum pressure value)−
(minimum pressure value)], latency (Δ
T), rise time or rise time coefficient=Δ
P/Δ
T, and wavelength of the single wave, anddetermining numbers of said single pressure waves occurring during a given time sequence,wherein said determining of numbers includes;
determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected values of one or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence, andfurther includes determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected combinations of two or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence.
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Abstract
A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising the steps of identifying from said digital data features related to single pressure waves, and determining at least one parameter of the single wave parameters elected from the group of: pressure amplitude ΔP, latency (ΔT), rise time coefficient ΔP/ΔT, and wavelength of the single wave, as well as determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected combinations of two or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence. In another aspect of the invention, the method is capable of identifying from said digital data features related to absolute pressures relative to atmospheric pressure a number of different pressure levels and duration thereof, and presenting the numbers of levels of various time durations in said matrix format.
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39 Claims
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1. A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising sampling said signals at specific intervals, converting the pressure signals into pressure-related digital data with a time reference,
identifying from said digital data features related to single pressure waves in said pressure signals, said identifying step including determination of a minimum pressure value related to diastolic minimum value and a maximum pressure value related to systolic maximum value, and determining at least one parameter of the single wave parameters elected from the group of: - pressure amplitude=Δ
P=[(maximum pressure value)−
(minimum pressure value)], latency (Δ
T), rise time or rise time coefficient=Δ
P/Δ
T, and wavelength of the single wave, anddetermining numbers of said single pressure waves occurring during a given time sequence, wherein said determining of numbers includes; determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected values of one or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence, and further includes determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected combinations of two or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
- pressure amplitude=Δ
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