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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2000
David Wayne Duckert, Menomonee Falls, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are each disclosed that are capable of providing a simplified neuromuscular transmission score utilizing multiple conventional stimulus modes. After applying a neuromuscular stimuli to a patient and measuring a neuromuscular response from the patient, a universal value is assigned to the neuromuscular response signal. The universal value is applicable to a single progressive scale that encompasses the multiple conventional stimulus mode scales. A neuromuscular transmission monitor is disclosed having at least one electrode, a transducer, and a processing unit to process the data and determine a correct stimulus mode for the neuromuscular response signal and produce a non-mode specific value applicable to the single universal scale. The technique is implemented in a computer program which may reside in the memory of either the neuromuscular transmission monitor, or a host patient monitor. In the former, the neuromuscular transmission monitor is more autonomous, and in the latter, acts more of a slave unit.