Patent ID: 7970470
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: A61M,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing disordered breathing therapy for a patient whose respiration cycle includes inspiration and expiration intervals, comprising: providing a patient-external respiratory therapy and a patient-internal cardiac therapy to a patient, the respiratory therapy being adapted to treat disordered breathing; measuring an expired respiratory gas concentration of an expired respiratory gas sample acquired at the end of an expiration interval of the patient as determined by a timing element, the measured expired respiratory gas concentration representative of blood gas concentration; determining one or more parameters influenced by disordered breathing, the one or more parameters comprising at least the expired respiratory gas concentration; providing one or more parameter thresholds comprising at least an expired respiratory gas threshold; and adjusting the respiratory therapy and the cardiac therapy based on the one or more parameters and the one or more parameter thresholds.