Patent ID: 8226570
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a sleep detector, adapted to detect a sleep indication in a subject, the sleep indication providing an indication or inference of whether the subject is asleep or awake; an exercise detector, adapted to detect an exercise indication in the subject, the exercise indication providing an indication or inference of whether the subject is active or at rest; and an implantable respiration monitor, operatively coupled to the sleep and exercise detectors, the respiration monitor adapted to detect disordered breathing in the subject, and to compute a sleep disordered breathing indication (DBsleep), an exercise disordered breathing indication (DBexercise), and a resting awake disordered breathing indication (DBrest), wherein the respiration monitor is configured to compute a combined disordered breathing metric, DBtotal, according to DBtotal=A·DBsleep+B·DBexercise+C·DBrest, wherein A, B, and C are independently specified scaling values.