King's College London, of The Strand;Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, of The Counting House, Guy's Hospital
发明人:
Nicholas Hart,John Moxham,Fiammetta Fedele
申请号：
US13627383
公开号：
US20130310699A1
申请日:
2012.09.26
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A method of monitoring a patient includes measuring neural respiratory drive using a monitoring device (10), repeating the measurement either continuously or at regular time intervals, and comparing the measurements obtained in order to predict treatment failure and/clinical deterioration and/or re-admission. In embodiments of the invention, the neural respiratory drive is measured by obtaining a measure of the second intercostal space parasternal electromyogram. A monitoring device (10) includes a signal input (20), a processing unit (30), and a output unit (50), and is arranged to measure the neural respiratory drive, store the measured value and compare it to a previously measured value for the neural respiratory drive.
