Nihon Kohden Corporation

Ryoichi Ochiai

Yoshihiro Sugo

Rie Tanaka

Takeshi Sohma

Wenxi Chen

Norio Ishikawa

Hidehiro Hosaka

Kohei Ono

Shin Suda

Katsumi Nakaichi

Shigeru Aso

A pacing-pulse detecting circuit,detects pacing pulses from an electrocardiogram signal led from an electrocardiogram electrode,A mode-status judging means,judges a mode status, a pacing mode or a nonpacing mode, on the basis of the pacing pulse detected. The detect result is transmitted to a CPU,The CPU,causes a display device,to display the result. An operator sees the display and operates a key,and gives an instruction to start a blood pressure measurement to the CPU,The CPU,drives a pump,and an exhaust valve,to supply and discharge air to and from a cuff,and measures a blood pressure by use of pressure data led from a pressure sensor

Patient monitoring apparatus

A pacing-pulse detecting circuit 3 detects pacing pulses from an electrocardiogram signal led from an electrocardiogram electrode 1. A mode-status judging means 21 judges a mode status, a pacing mode or a nonpacing mode, on the basis of the pacing pulse detected. The detect result is transmitted to a CPU 5. The CPU 5 causes a display device 10 to display the result. An operator sees the display and operates a key 22, and gives an instruction to start a blood pressure measurement to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 drives a pump 13 and an exhaust valve 14 to supply and discharge air to and from a cuff 11, and measures a blood pressure by use of pressure data led from a pressure sensor 15.

A pacing-pulse detecting circuit 3 detects pacing pulses from an electrocardiogram signal led from an electrocardiogram electrode 1. A mode-status judging means 21 judges a mode status, a pacing mode or a nonpacing mode, on the basis of the pacing pulse detected. The detect result is transmitted to a CPU 5. The CPU causes a display device 10 to display the result. An operator sees the display and operates a key 22, and gives an instruction to start a blood pressure measurement to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 drives a pump 13 and an exhaust valve 14 to supply and discharge air to and from a cuff 11, and measures a blood pressure by use of pressure data led from a pressure sensor 15.

An electrocardiogram signal derived from electrocardiogram measuring means 1 and a pulse signal derived from pulse-wave measuring means 2 are applied to a CPU 30. The CPU 30 processes the cardiogram signal to detect a QRS wave signal, and processes the pulse signal to detect the amplitude of the pulse signal. The CPU 30 judges whether or not the QRS wave is caused by a ventricular premature contraction. If two QRS waves, not caused by ventricular premature contraction, occurs successively, and the CPU 30 judges if A0.times.k&gt;A1. The CPU 30 judges that a supraventricular extrasystole is occurred. Here, A0 is an amplitude of the first QSR wave; A1 is an amplitude of the second QSR wave; and k is a preset value, 0&lt;k&lt;1.

The apparatus has: electrodes (E.sub.1 to E.sub.6) which are to be attached to a predetermined region of a living body; a skin potential measuring unit (1) which detects the skin potential from the electrodes; a judging unit (3) which detects and stores the skin potential before administration of an anesthetic agent, which detects and stores that after administration of the anesthetic agent, which sets a threshold to be an arbitrary level, on the basis of a change from the stored skin potential before administration of the anesthetic agent to the stored skin potential after administration of the anesthetic agent, and which compares the time-varying skin potential with the threshold, thereby judging the depth of anesthesia; and an alarm unit (6) which raises an alarm in accordance with instructions from the judging unit.

Method and apparatus for judging a depth of anesthesia

A respiration monitor of the invention includes: an infrared camera for forming an image of a face; an operation section for selecting an imaging temperature to be set for the infrared camera out of a predetermined temperature range and setting the selected imaging temperature; an image memory for storing a facial image signal outputted from the infrared camera; a control section for defining a facial region in the facial image signal, binarizing the facial image signal within the facial region, calculating and outputting a respiratory waveform signal from a change in an area of the facial region every inspiration, and outputting an alarm by judging an apnea when a condition in which there is no change in the area of the facial region lasts for a predetermined time; an alarm section for generating an alarm out of the alarm signal; a synthesis section For synthesizing the facial image signal with the respiratory waveform signal; and a display apparatus for inputting the facial image signal and the respiratory waveform signal synthesized and outputted from the synthesis section, chronologically continuously displaying the facial image with the area of the facial region of the facial image changing, and displaying a respiratory waveform so as to correspond to the facial image with the area of the facial region of the facial image changing.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryoichi Ochiai