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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2020
Applicant:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventor:
D'Anne E. Kudlik, Saint Louis Park, MN (US);
Assignee:
MEDTRONIC, INC., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 60/592 (2021.01); A61M 60/178 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 60/592 (2021.01); A61M 60/178 (2021.01); A61M 2205/3334 (2013.01); A61M 2250/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of determining a cumulative presence of suction in a patient having an implanted blood pump including determining whether at least one suction event occurred during a predetermined time interval for a predetermined number of time intervals and determining the cumulative presence of suction by dividing a sum of a number of predetermined time intervals in which at least one suction event occurred by the predetermined number of time intervals.