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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2017
Applicant:
University Health Network, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
T. Douglas Bradley, Toronto, CA;
Geoffrey Roy Fernie, Etobicoke, CA;
Hisham Alshaer, Mississauga, CA;
Ahmad Ziad Akl, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK, Toronto, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61B 5/4818 (2013.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are breathing disorder identification, characterization and diagnosis methods, devices and systems. In general the disclosed methods, devices and systems may rely on the characterization of breath sound amplitudes, periodic breath sounds and/or aperiodic breath sounds to characterize a breathing disorder as obstructive (e.g. obstructive sleep apnea—OSA) or non-obstructive (e.g. central sleep apnea—CSA).