Detecting, assessing and managing a risk of death in epilepsy
First Claim
1. A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy, comprising:
- receiving cardiac data into a medical device;
determining, at least one cardiac index based upon said cardiac data;
determining whether said cardiac index is an extreme cardiac index by determining whether said cardiac index is below a low cardiac threshold value or above a high cardiac threshold value;
determining, using the medical device, the increased risk of death associated with epilepsy in response to a determination that said cardiac index is the extreme cardiac index; and
performing a responsive action based upon an occurrence of the increased risk of death, said responsive action comprises at least one of issuing automatically a warning;
providing a therapy, or logging automatically information related to the increased risk of death.
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Abstract
A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy is provided. The method includes receiving cardiac data and determining a cardiac index based upon the cardiac data. The method includes determining an increased risk of death associated with epilepsy if the indices are extreme, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. Also presented is a second method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy comprising receiving at least one of arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data and determining an arousal index, a responsiveness index or an awareness index, where the indices are based on arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data respectively. The second method includes determining an increased risk of death related to epilepsy if indices are extreme values, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. A computer readable program storage device is also provided. Also provided is a method for receiving body data, determining a cardiac, an arousal, a responsiveness, or a kinetic index, determining an increased or increasing risk of death over a first time window relating to a patient with epilepsy and issuing a warning and logging relevant information.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy, comprising:
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receiving cardiac data into a medical device; determining, at least one cardiac index based upon said cardiac data; determining whether said cardiac index is an extreme cardiac index by determining whether said cardiac index is below a low cardiac threshold value or above a high cardiac threshold value; determining, using the medical device, the increased risk of death associated with epilepsy in response to a determination that said cardiac index is the extreme cardiac index; and performing a responsive action based upon an occurrence of the increased risk of death, said responsive action comprises at least one of issuing automatically a warning;
providing a therapy, or logging automatically information related to the increased risk of death. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy, comprising:
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receiving cardiac data into a medical device; determining, at least one cardiac index based upon said cardiac data; determining whether said cardiac index is an extreme cardiac index by determining whether said cardiac index is below a low cardiac threshold value or above a high cardiac threshold value; determining, using the medical device, the increased risk of death associated with epilepsy in response to a determination that said cardiac index is the extreme cardiac index; and performing a responsive action based upon an occurrence of the increased risk of death, said responsive action comprises at least one of issuing automatically a warning;
providing a therapy, or logging automatically information related to the increased risk of death. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A medical device system, comprising:
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a body data collection module configured to receive cardiac data into a medical device; a controller configured to determine at least one cardiac index based upon said cardiac data, and whether said cardiac index is an extreme cardiac index by determining whether said cardiac index is below a low cardiac threshold value or above a high cardiac threshold value; a death/SUDEP risk determination unit configured to determine the increased risk of death associated with epilepsy in response to a determination that said cardiac index is an extreme cardiac index; and at least one of; a warning unit configured to issue a warning, a therapy unit configured to provide a therapy, or a logging/reporting module configured to log information related to the increased risk of death. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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