Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular
Patent
1998-12-28
2000-12-19
O'Connor, Cary
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Cardiovascular
600500, 600529, A61B 508, A61B 502
Patent
active
061621803
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for determining a patient's cardiac output in a non-invasive manner and transmitting cardiac output data to a remote host processor, a communications system, or a local output device is disclosed. A non-invasive cardiac monitoring approach utilizes an implantable medical device coupled to an oxygen sensor. The oxygen sensor provides venous oxygen saturation data to the implantable medical device. An oxygen consumption unit produces oxygen consumption data using air exhaled by a patient. A processing unit calculates a cardiac output result in real-time using the venous oxygen saturation data, the oxygen consumption data, and arterial oxygen saturation data assumed to be about 100% or acquired using a sensor external to the patient. The implantable medical device may transmit the venous oxygen saturation data to the processing unit using electromagnetic signals or acoustic signals. The implantable medical device may be a pacemaker, a pacemaker/cardioverter/defibrillator (PCD), an oxygen sensing device, or an implantable hemodynamic monitor. The processing unit may store the cardiac output data/result for a period of time and/or communicate the cardiac output result to the remote host processor substantially in real-time via a communications interface. The interface may include a modem, a computer interface, a network interface, or a communications system interface, for example. The processing unit may communicate the cardiac output result to the remote host processor in an analog, digital or optical form.
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Miesel Keith A.
Stylos Lee
Astorino Michael
Atlass Michael B.
Medtronic Inc.
O'Connor Cary
Patton Harold R.
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