Surgery – Diagnostic testing
Patent
1998-06-12
2000-09-19
Nasser, Robert L.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
600486, 600500, 600587, 600593, A61B 500
Patent
active
061204420
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method for noninvasively determining cardiac performance parameters including 1) lengths of systolic time intervals, (2) contractility index, (3) pulse amplitude ratios while performing the Valsalva maneuver, (4) cardiac output index, and (5) a pulse wave velocity index. A catheter having at least one balloon is inserted into the esophagus and pressurized and positioned adjacent the aortic arch to sense aortic pressure. The effects of aortic pressure on the balloon are utilized to determine at least one of the cardiac performance parameters. The catheter may include a second balloon which is spaced from the aortic balloon a distance such that when the second balloon is in a position adjacent the left atrium to sense left atrial pressure the aortic balloon is in a position adjacent the aortic arch to sense aortic pressure, this distance being related to the distance between the left atrium and aortic arch in most adult persons.
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Nasser Robert L.
Simmons James C.
The Research Foundation of State University of New York
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