Patent ID: 6858012
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for performing multiple sessions of external counterpulsion therapy on a patient and recording and presenting data relative to the therapy to an operator, said system comprising: one or more inflatable bladders adapted to compress the patient; and inflation system for inflating the inflatable bladders; a blood pressure monitoring system operable to continuously detect the patient's blood pressure and transmit blood pressure data; ECG monitoring system operable to continuously detect the patient's ECG and transmit ECG data; a computerized control system operable to control the inflation system, receive and record ECG data from the ECG monitoring system, receive and record data from the blood pressure monitoring system; said control system programmed to operate the inflation system in response to the ECG data; wherein the computerized control system is further programmed to: present a first display comprising; record cardiac parameters for substantially the entirety of each treatment session; present a second display comprising one or more trace data fields and present an ECG trace generated from the ECG data, a blood pressure trace generated from the blood pressure data, and an inflation/deflation data trace corresponding to the control system's operation of the inflation system in the trace data fields; presenting substantially continuous ECG data, blood pressure data, and inflation/deflation data corresponding to the entirety of a treatment session in the trace data fields in the second display; wherein the control system is further programmed to calculate a utilization percentage corresponding to the percentage of available compression time during which the system inflates the bladders and present the utilization percentage within the first display.