W. Robert Addington,Stuart P. Miller,Robert E. Stephens,Michael M. Phelipa,Mary W. Briganti
申请号：
US14059901
公开号：
US08840550B2
申请日:
2013.10.22
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A system and method allows diagnosis of a patient for physiological abnormality such as a neurological deficiency. An involuntary reflex cough event is induced within the patient that activates the nucleus ambiguus and medial motor cell column of the patient and stimulates involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles in the pelvis of the patient. An electromyogram (EMG) is obtained from the involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles while inducing involuntary reflex cough and determining its duration. The intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is determined and the IAP is correlated with the EMG duration of the involuntary cough event within a processing device to diagnose a physiological abnormality such as a neurological deficiency within the patient.
