Patent ID: 9335330
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method of determining health status of a mammal, and depending on the result of said health status determination, making a decision of performing medical treatment, and performing a medical treatment, to change said health status of said mammal, comprising: measuring responses from at least one cardiac marker, present in samples of blood repetitively taken from said mammal, wherein a plurality, at least three, of said responses from the same cardiac marker are measured at different times, continuously forming response signals, a curve/curves, with respect to time as long as measurements are taken; calculating from said response signals, curve/curves, the rate of change over time and/or the rate of change of said rate of change over time, of said curve/curves, of the responses from said cardiac marker/cardiac markers, continuously presenting new curve/curves, and representing first and/or second derivatives of said response signals, curve/curves; wherein said rate of change is based on precise sampling times, less than 1 minute variation of actual sampling time and sampling time used in calculations; using the results/results from said calculation for determination of health status of a patient in early stages of a suspected acute medical condition, wherein the suspected acute medical condition is acute myocardial infarction (AMI); said decision of performing medical treatment, and performing medical treatment, to change said health status of said mammal is based on the levels of said first derivative signal and/or response signal, and/or said second derivative, where AMI is diagnosed if the level of said response signal, or said first derivative signal or, said second derivative signal, or a combination of these signals, has passed a decision level; and performing the medical treatment of opening a closed blood vessel based upon if said first derivative signal or, said second derivative signal, or a combination of these signals, has passed a decision level.