Patent ID: 8185190
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method employable with an ambulatory, therapy-device-equipped subject who is utilizing a Holter-type instrumentality, for assessing, and applying therapy regarding, that subject's degree of cardiac ischemia and risk for sudden cardiac death via examining the subject's associated heart-functionality LDPT (S2-Q) and % LVST parameter information, said method comprising gathering from the subject simultaneous ECG-electrical and heart-sound-mechanical data, following said gathering, computer processing and interrelating the gathered data to obtain information regarding the subject's heart-functionality parameters known as LDPT (S2-Q) and % LVST as such parameter information is derived from the gathered data, and thereafter, using the obtained and derived subject's LDPT (S2-Q) and % LVST parameter information, adjusting, as necessary, the subject's therapy device in a manner designed to cause the device to minimize and counteract the likelihood of at least one of the onset or advancement of ischemia, and the onset of sudden cardiac death.