Patent ID: 11969233
Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 7:
8. A method for monitoring a cardiovascular pressure in a patient, the method comprising:
determining, by a first device, whether a first defined time for a cardiovascular pressure measurement has arrived;
in response to arrival of the first defined time, determining, by the first device, whether the patient is in any target posture of a set of multiple target postures, wherein the set of multiple target postures is defined by a location in a pulmonary artery of a patient's body in which a pressure sensing device is implanted;
in response to a determination that the patient is in any target posture of the set of multiple target postures, triggering by the first device, a measurement of the patient's cardiovascular pressure using the pressure sensing device;
transmitting via wireless communication circuitry of the pressure sensing device, the measured cardiovascular pressure to the first device;
determining, by the first device, whether a threshold number of pressure measurements have been taken;
in response to a determination that the threshold number of pressure measurements have not been taken and the determination that the patient is in any target posture of the set of multiple target postures, setting, by the first device, a timer for a first amount of time, the expiration of which defines a second defined time for cardiovascular pressure measurement; and
in response to arrival of the second defined time, again determining, by the first device, whether the patient is in any target posture of the set of multiple target postures.