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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1995
Filed:
May. 14, 1993
Xiang Wang, Lansdale, PA (US);
Hun H Sun, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention reliably computes cardiac output with a noninvasive procedure. The system measures the electrical impedance of a patient's body, during a time interval of interest. The system then obtains frequency transforms of various time segments of the first derivative of the impedance signal. Each such transform is integrated over a frequency range of interest, and the values of the integrals are plotted as a function of time. The graph so derived has characteristic extrema which can be used to identify critical points in the impedance derivative signal. These critical points can be used to determine parameters which are used in a calculation of stroke volume and cardiac output.