Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient. SOLUTION: The device comprises: a user interface 21 configured to deliver prompts to a caregiver to assist the caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient; at least one sensor 321 configured to detect the caregiver's progress in delivering the cardiac resuscitation, wherein the sensor 321 is configured to provide a signal containing information indicative of artificial respiration; a memory in which a plurality of different prompts are stored, including at least one artificial respiration progress prompt to guide the rescuer's performance of ventilation; a processor 20 configured to process the output of the sensor 321 to determine a parameter descriptive of artificial respiration progress and to determine whether the artificial respiration progress prompt is to be selected for delivery. Parameters descriptive of the artificial respiration progress include artificial respiration rate, delivered volume of one time, and flow rate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device which automatically gives chest compression and ventilation to a patient. SOLUTION: The device comprises: a chest-compressing equipment which is composed so as to give a compression phase when pressure is applied in order to compress a chest and a non-compression phase when the pressure given to the chest approximately zero; an artificial respirator which is composed so as to give a positive pressure, negative pressure or a pressure of approximately zero to the respiratory tract; a control circuit and a processor which comprises the non-compression phase and the compression phase of systolic phase respectively; and a set comprising a plurality of systolic flow cycles. Additionally, the device is composed so as to recurrently give one or more diastolic flow cycle which comprises the non-compression phase and the compression phase of diastolic phase respectively and scatters among a set of the systolic flow cycle, and the non-compression phase of the diastolic phase is longer than the non-compression phase of the systolic phase. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode assembly in which effect of a stimulation artifact in physiological monitoring is reduced, for monitoring of external physiological signals (e.g. ECC signals) of a patient in stimulation of the exterior of a patient (e.g. pacing). SOLUTION: Electrodes and circuitry for monitoring and stimulating the exterior of the human body comprise delivering stimulation pulses to stimulation electrodes applied to the exterior of the body, detecting an electrical potential at monitoring electrodes applied to the exterior of the body, wherein positioning elements, external stimulation electrodes, and first and second external monitoring electrodes are constituted so as to arrange at least a first and second monitoring electrode at locations at which an electrical artifact caused by the electrical stimulation pulses is substantially canceled in a signal formed from the electrical potentials detected at the first and second monitoring electrodes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for resuscitating a patient suffering from cardiac arrest or another condition in which normal circulation has been interrupted.SOLUTION: A ventilator is used for delivering a gas mixture to a patient. The ventilator is configured to adjust the partial pressure of COto one or more partial pressures high enough to slow expiration of COfrom the patient's lungs and thereby maintain a reduced pH in the patient's tissues for a period of time following return of spontaneous circulation.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient.SOLUTION: An automatic external defibrillation device for delivering defibrillation shocks to a patient and for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to the patient includes an electrode pad supporting at least one defibrillation electrode, the pad being configured to be adhesively applied to the chest of the patient, at least one pressure sensor configured to detect information relating to the caregiver's performance of ventilation to the patient, wherein at least a portion of the pressure sensor is mounted on the electrode pad, and a processor configured to process the output of the pressure sensor to determine a parameter descriptive of ventilation progress.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the usability of a defibrillation system.SOLUTION: A compression-sensing element such as an accelerometer or a force-sensing element, is electrically connected to a resuscitation control system. A plurality of manually operable controls (20) are mechanically interconnected with first and second electrodes (12, 14) and a CPR pad (18) and electrically connected to a resuscitation control system (26), which provides resuscitation prompts to a rescuer based on use of the manually operable control (20) by the rescuer. A second control (30) is positioned on the resuscitation control system (26) that can be operated by a rescuer to indicate the patient that the application of a defibrillation shock is ready. A pulse detection system (52) detects whether the patient has a pulse when the substrate is in contact with the patient.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide multi-path transthoracic defibrillation for external defibrillation. SOLUTION: By placing three or more electrodes on the outside of the body of a patient, at least two electric routes which get across the body of the patient are established. Impedance information which shows impedance distribution which gets across the body is decided. Electromagnetic stimulation is provided from the outside of the body to the inside of the body by generating an electromagnetic waveform which gets across each of at least the two electric routes. At least one parameter of the waveform is chosen by using the impedance information. Selected current density distribution is generated at one place or two or more places of the inside of the body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the usability of a defibrillation system in an integrated resuscitation incorporated with the defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prompts. SOLUTION: A compression-sensing element such as an accelerometer, or a force-sensing element, is electrically connected to a resuscitation control system. A plurality of manually operable controls 20 are mechanically interconnected with first and second electrodes 12 and 14 and a CPR pad 18 and electrically connected to a resuscitation control system 26, which provides resuscitation prompts to a rescuer based on use of the manually operable control 20 by the rescuer. A second control 30 is positioned on the resuscitation control system 26 that can be operated by a rescuer to indicate the patient that the application of a defibrillation shock is ready. A pulse detection system 52 detects whether the patient has a pulse when the substrate is in contact with the patient. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide multipath transthoracic defibrillation for solving the problem existing in a conventional technology. SOLUTION: Electromagnetic stimulation is provided from the outside of the body into the body by generating an electromagnetic waveform of respectively crossing at least two electric paths, by determining impedance information for expressing the impedance distribution crossing in the body, by establishing at least the two electric paths by crossing in the body of a patient by installing three or more electrodes outside the body of the patient. The selected current density distribution is generated in a position of one place or a plurality of places in the body, by selecting at least one parameter of a waveform by using the impedance information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and systems of applying treatment to a subject experiencing cardiac distress. In one example, there is provided a resuscitation apparatus. The resuscitation apparatus comprises a displacement monitor, a blood perfusion monitor, and a processor coupled to the displacement monitor and to the blood perfusion monitor. The processor is configured to initiate a measurement of blood perfusion using the blood perfusion monitor responsive to a signal received from the displacement monitor.