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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
May. 20, 2020
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michelle M. Galarneau, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Brian B. Lee, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Andrew Radtke, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vinod Sharma, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A medical device is configured to produce an accelerometer signal and detect a patient fall from the accelerometer signal. The device generates a body posture signal and a body acceleration signal from the accelerometer signal and detects a patient fall in response to determining that the body posture signal and the body acceleration signal meet fall detection criteria. The medical device is configured to receive a truth signal from another device that is not the medical device. The truth signal may indicate that the detected patient fall is a falsely detected patient fall and, responsive to receiving the truth signal, the medical device adjusts at least one fall detection control parameter.