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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Vladislav Bukhman, East Northport, NY (US);
Inventor:
Vladislav Bukhman, East Northport, NY (US);
Assignee:
Cyberonics, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting an epilepsy event in a patient using a medical device. The medical device is capable of determining an occurring epilepsy event, for example a seizure or an increased risk of a seizure. The determination is performed by determining at least one nonlinear analysis parameter associated with the beat sequence of the patient's heart. The medical device may then take a responsive action, such as warning, logging the time of the seizure, computing and storing one or more seizure severity indices, and treating the epilepsy event.