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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2018
Pacesetter, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald Lee Hopper, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for monitoring and responding to changes in a patient's physiologic status. A method includes sensing pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) and thoracic impedance of a patient at rest. The method also includes detecting, based on the sensed PAP, whenever the patient's PAP at rest is outside an acceptable range of PAP measures for the patient at rest, and detecting, based on the sensed thoracic impedance, whenever the patient's respiration at rest is outside an acceptable range of respiration measures for the patient at rest. Various different actions are triggered depending upon whether the patient's PAP at rest is outside the acceptable range of PAP measures for the patient at rest, and whether the patient's respiration at rest is within the acceptable range of respiration measures for the patient at rest. Other embodiments relate to similar methods performed at other levels of exertion.