System for determining electrical status of patient attached leads
First Claim
1. A system for determining electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring, comprising:
- a repository of data indicating a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring;
an impedance measurement processor using a substantially passive impedance bridge network operating exclusive of constant current injection for automatically successively determining whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of a plurality of electrical leads attached to patient skin is within a particular impedance value range of a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and capturing a cardiac impedance distribution together with electrophysiological vectors on different leads for together mapping to localize cardiac tissue conditions and indicating a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis, said impedance measurement processor predicts a lead signal voltage conveyed on said particular patient attached lead using remaining acceptable lead signals in response to a determination said particular impedance value range of said particular patient attached lead indicates an unacceptable connection and comprises a failed lead, wherein said prediction of said lead signal conveyed on said particular patient attached lead is in response to a weighted lead signal combination using remaining said acceptable lead signals; and
an output processor for communicating data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of said plurality of electrical leads by deriving status information from said repository in response to a determination said impedance value of said particular patient attached lead is within said particular impedance value range.
7 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system determines electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring. The system includes a repository of data indicating multiple predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring. An impedance measurement processor automatically successively determines whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of multiple electrical leads attached to a patient is within a particular impedance value range of multiple predetermined impedance value ranges. An output processor automatically communicates data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of the multiple electrical leads by deriving status information from the repository in response to a determination the impedance value of the particular patient attached lead is within the particular impedance value range.
25 Citations
13 Claims
-
1. A system for determining electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring, comprising:
-
a repository of data indicating a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring; an impedance measurement processor using a substantially passive impedance bridge network operating exclusive of constant current injection for automatically successively determining whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of a plurality of electrical leads attached to patient skin is within a particular impedance value range of a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and capturing a cardiac impedance distribution together with electrophysiological vectors on different leads for together mapping to localize cardiac tissue conditions and indicating a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis, said impedance measurement processor predicts a lead signal voltage conveyed on said particular patient attached lead using remaining acceptable lead signals in response to a determination said particular impedance value range of said particular patient attached lead indicates an unacceptable connection and comprises a failed lead, wherein said prediction of said lead signal conveyed on said particular patient attached lead is in response to a weighted lead signal combination using remaining said acceptable lead signals; and an output processor for communicating data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of said plurality of electrical leads by deriving status information from said repository in response to a determination said impedance value of said particular patient attached lead is within said particular impedance value range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
-
-
10. A system for determining electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring, comprising:
-
a repository of data indicating a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring, said plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges indicating potential patient medical conditions; an impedance measurement processor using a substantially passive impedance bridge network operating exclusive of constant current injection for automatically successively determining whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of a plurality of electrical leads attached to patient skin is within a particular impedance value range of a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges by successively altering a known impedance value in an impedance bridge network and said impedance measurement processor automatically determines between whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead indicates a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis or an unacceptable connection and captures a cardiac impedance distribution together with electrophysiological vectors on different leads for mapping to localize cardiac tissue conditions and indicating a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis, wherein said impedance measurement processor automatically initiates prediction of a lead signal voltage conveyed on said particular patient attached lead in response to a weighted lead signal combination using remaining acceptable lead signals; and an output processor for automatically communicating data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of said plurality of electrical leads by deriving status information from said repository in response to a determination said impedance value of said particular patient attached lead is within said particular impedance value range. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
-
-
13. A method for determining electrical status of patient attached leads in medical patient monitoring, comprising the activities of:
employing at least one processing device for, storing in a repository, data indicating a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and corresponding associated lead status information of at least one electrical lead attached to a patient for conducting electrical signals for use in patient monitoring; using a substantially passive impedance bridge network operating exclusive of constant current injection for automatically successively determining whether an impedance value of a particular patient attached lead of a plurality of electrical leads attached to patient skin is within a particular impedance value range of a plurality of predetermined impedance value ranges and indicates a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis; capturing a cardiac impedance distribution together with electrophysiological vectors on different leads for mapping to localize cardiac tissue conditions and indicating a potential patient medical condition supporting diagnosis; predicting a lead signal conveyed on said particular patient attached lead using remaining acceptable lead signals in response to a determination said particular impedance value range of said particular patient attached lead indicates an unacceptable connection, wherein said prediction of said lead signal conveyed on said particular patient attached lead is in response to a weighted lead signal combination using remaining said acceptable lead signals; and communicating data comprising a message identifying an electrical status of a particular lead of said plurality of electrical leads by deriving status information from said repository in response to a determination said impedance value of said particular patient attached lead is within said particular impedance value range.
Specification