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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2011
William Oren Wekell, Maple Valley, WA (US);
William Oren Wekell, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Bioguidance LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A patient monitoring device to be worn on a limb of a patient. Some embodiments of the patient monitoring device include at least one sensor assembly configured to detect a measurement indicating a distance around the patient's limb and a communications subassembly configured to transmit the measurement to at least one external computing device. Other embodiments of the patient monitoring device include at least one sensor assembly configured to detect a measurement indicating a distance around the patient's limb and at least one processor configured to detect whether the distance around the patient's limb has increased indicating edema. Some embodiments include an accelerometer configured to detect device orientation and/or patient activity information. The patient activity information may be analyzed by an external computing device and/or the patient monitoring device to determine whether the patient's activity level has declined indicating a medical problem.