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.: US13889455Application Date: 2013-05-08
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Publication No.: US09125569B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Nigel Gough , Jon Evans
- Applicant: Huntleigh Technology Limited
- 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
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/04 ; A61B8/06 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/0295 ; A61B5/022

Abstract:
An ABPI measurement system includes a cuff for each ankle and a cuff for each arm of a patient. Each cuff has first and second 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 second chambers are then simultaneously inflated until the PAPG signals are extinguished in each limb, the inflation of the second chambers continuing for 10 mmHg to 20 mmHg above the extinguishing pressure. The second chambers are then deflated and the pressure in the second chamber 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
- US20130245468A1 AUTOMATIC ANKLE BRACHIAL PRESSURE INDEX SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2013-09-19
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