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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2020
Kci Licensing, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
James Seddon, Wimborne, GB;
Benjamin A. Pratt, Poole, GB;
KCI Licensing, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
One implementation of the present disclosure is a method for dynamically controlling an alarm of a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device, according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, the method includes initiating NPWT, comparing an initial pump duty to a threshold value to determine a dressing application quality, monitoring a leakage rate of the NPWT, setting a leak threshold value based on the dressing application quality, determining leakage event occurrences in response to the leakage rate exceeding the leak threshold value at multiple times, adjusting the leak threshold value based on at least one of a number of the leakage events over the time period, a time duration between sequentially occurring leakage events of the leakage events, and the dressing application quality, and causing a user interface device to display a leak alert in response to the leakage rate exceeding the adjusted leak threshold value.