APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE DEGREE OF INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HEART AND THE LUNGS, AND THE THERAPEUTIC SUCCESS OF RESUSCITATIVE INTERVENTIONS
Ian Brodkin;Arthur Willms;Fouad Halwani;Awni Ayoubi;Nathan Ayoubi
发明人:
Ian Brodkin,Arthur Willms,Fouad Halwani,Awni Ayoubi,Nathan Ayoubi
申请号：
US16592642
公开号：
US20200101254A1
申请日:
2019.10.03
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2020
代理人:
摘要：
A method, system and apparatus for assessing the coupling between lung perfusion and ventilation in a patient who is mechanically ventilated or who is breathing spontaneously through a conventional artificial airway is provided. Embodiments of the apparatus comprise an adaptor configured to fit between the artificial airway and mechanical ventilator, a measuring chamber in constant fluid communication with the adaptor via one or more measuring chamber sampling ports, and a monitoring unit where data obtained from temperature and relative humidity sensors located in the measuring is calibrated, sampled, logged and analyzed together with anthropometric patient data to display a coupling index Qi and to enable ongoing diagnostic cardio-pulmonary monitoring of a patient by comparing changes in the patient's index during a monitoring interval.
