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Techniques for prediction and monitoring of coughing-manifested clinical episodes

  • US 8,517,953 B2
  • Filed: 07/23/2010
  • Issued: 08/27/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus comprising:

  • a sensor configured to sense a breathing-related sound of a subject selected from the group consisting of;

    coughing of a subject and wheezing of the subject, and to generate a signal responsively to the selected breathing-related sound;

    a breathing sensor configured to sense breathing of the subject and generate a breathing signal responsively thereto; and

    a control unit configured to;

    receive the signal generated responsively to the selected breathing-related sound;

    receive the breathing signal;

    in response to the received signals, determine a correlation between timing of a breathing cycle of the subject and timing of the breathing-related sound; and

    in response thereto, monitor a condition of the subject selected from the group consisting of;

    asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), cystic fibrosis (CF), and epilepsy.

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