Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1995-02-24
1996-09-03
Sykes, Angela D.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128687, 128780, 128675, A61B 502
Patent
active
055514391
ABSTRACT:
Non-invasive apparatus and method for obtaining a quantitative determination of mean left atrial pressure or otherwise obtaining a quantitative determination of a left atrial pressure value. A balloon is inserted by means of a catheter into the esophagus and positioned adjacent the left atrium. The balloon is gradually inflated. A tracing of mean balloon pressure is obtained as the balloon is inflated. In addition, a tracing of balloon pressure on a steady baseline and with low frequency oscillations due to respiration filtered out is obtained whereby the tracing represents balloon pressure oscillations effected by left atrial pressure. In accordance with the oscillometric principle the mean balloon pressure is measured at the time when the amplitude of the balloon pressure oscillations effected by the left atrial pressure is at a peak. This mean balloon pressure is indicative of approximate mean left atrial pressure. Mean left atrial transmural pressure may be determined by subtracting therefrom the mean esophageal pressure as measured at a position in the esophagus where it is unaffected by the heart. The catheter includes a naso-gastric tube and is passed centrally of the balloon whereby the balloon surrounds the catheter so that contact between the balloon and the esophageal wall is not obstructed for greater reliability of mean left atrial pressure determinations. The catheter may also include an esophageal stethoscope and/or an esophageal temperature sensor.
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Nasser Jr. Robert L.
Sykes Angela D.
The Research Foundation of State University of New York
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