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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
Luchy Roteliuk, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Weldon Dean West, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Douglas Meyer, Jr., Tustin, CA (US);
Luong N. Phan, San Clemente, CA (US);
Luchy Roteliuk, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Weldon Dean West, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Douglas Meyer, Jr., Tustin, CA (US);
Luong N. Phan, San Clemente, CA (US);
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical blood pressure transducer that provides an identifier to a monitor that conveys characteristics of the transducer. The monitor can use the information to decide whether to function, or in calibration of the system. The transducer may be part of a disposable blood pressure monitoring system, and may include two transducers closely-spaced to provide two separate but identical outputs. In this way, the transducer may be connected to both a patient monitor and a cardiac output monitor at the same time measurements from a single line can be simultaneously supplied to two separate monitoring devices (for example a patient monitor and a cardiac output monitor). The identifier for the transducer may be circuitry, specifically a resistance/capacitance (RC) combination that possesses a characteristic time constant.