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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2009
Applicant:
Christer Sinderby, Toronto, CA;
Inventor:
Christer Sinderby, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61M 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for determining a patient-ventilator breath contribution index in a spontaneously breathing, mechanically ventilated patient. A patient's efficiency to generate an inspiratory volume without mechanical ventilatory assist and a patient's efficiency to generate an inspiratory volume with mechanical ventilatory assist are calculated and used to determine the patient-ventilator breath contribution index.