Cardiac flow sensor

Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular

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600505, 600526, A61B 500

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059891920

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method are provided for obtaining a measure of blood flow, and more specifically cardiac output, by analyzing blood temperature variations in the arterial tract. In a first embodiment, a lead carrying two closely spaced temperature sensors is positioned so that the sensors are in the atrial tract and produce temperature signals representative of small cyclical temperature variations of the blood outputted from the heart. The two signals have substantially similar patterns for each cardiac cycle, but the signals are separated by a short time (.increment.T) representative of the distance between the two sensors. The patterns are correlated to find .increment.T, from which cardiac output is calculated. In an alternate embodiment, a single blood temperature sensor is employed along with a sensor for determining cardiac contractions, and a measure of cardiac output is obtained by comparing the time difference between a feature of the blood temperature signal with the time of cardiac contraction.

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