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Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017

Filed:

May. 17, 2012
Applicants:

Hisham Alshaer, Mississauga, CA;

Geoffrey Roy Fernie, Etobicoke, CA;

T. Douglas Bradley, Toronto, CA;

Ahmad Ziad Akl, Toronto, CA;

Inventors:

Hisham Alshaer, Mississauga, CA;

Geoffrey Roy Fernie, Etobicoke, CA;

T. Douglas Bradley, Toronto, CA;

Ahmad Ziad Akl, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61B 5/4818 (2013.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are breathing disorder identification, characterization and diagnosis methods, devices and systems. In general the disclosed methods, devices and systems may rely on the characterization of breath sound amplitudes, periodic breath sounds and/or aperiodic breath sounds to characterize a breathing disorder as obstructive (e.g. obstructive sleep apnea—OSA) or non-obstructive (e.g. central sleep apnea—CSA).


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