Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic ankle brachial pressure index system
- Patent Title (中): 自动踝臂压力指数系统
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Application No.: US12280362Application Date: 2007-02-23
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Publication No.: US08439843B2Publication Date: 2013-05-14
- Inventor: Nigel Gough , Jon Evans
- Applicant: Nigel Gough , Jon Evans
- Applicant Address: GB
- Assignee: Huntleigh Technology Limited
- Current Assignee: Huntleigh Technology Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB
- Agency: DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C.
- Agent Craig A. Fieschko, Esq.
- Priority: GB0603564.6 20060223
- International Application: PCT/GB2007/000629 WO 20070223
- International Announcement: WO2007/096632 WO 20070830
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/04 ; A61B8/06 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/0295

Abstract:
An ABPI measurement system includes two cuffs for each ankle and two cuffs for each arm of a patient. Each cuff has chambers. The four cuffs are applied to each limb (or finger or toe), each chamber is inflated simultaneously to a pressure until a Pneumo Arterial Plethysmography (PAPG) signal related to the arterial flow in the limb is detected at the chambers. The chambers are then simultaneously inflated until the PAPG signals are extinguished in each limb, the inflation of chambers continuing for 10 mmHg to 20 mmHg above that pressure. The chambers are then deflated and the pressure at which the PAPG signal returns in the first chamber is recorded for each limb and this value of the pressure is used to calculate the ABPI. The ABPI is displayed or sent to a remote site.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090036786A1 AUTOMATIC ANKLE BRACHIAL PRESSURE INDEX SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2009-02-05
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