Patent ID: 8034006

Claim:
A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) sensor comprising: a card selected from the group consisting essentially of a business card, a credit card, a debit card, a membership card, a driver's license and an identification card; a thin and substantially flat flexible substrate encapsulated or integrated into the card; one or more sensor arrays disposed on the flexible substrate that measure one or more compression characteristics and one or more operational parameters; an output interface disposed on the flexible substrate that provides a feedback to a user; a processor or an analog circuit disposed on the flexible substrate and connected to the one or more sensor arrays and the output interface, wherein the processor or the analog circuit determines whether the measured operational parameters are within one or more CPR guidelines based on the measured compression characteristics and provides the feedback to the user regarding whether the measured operational parameters are within the CPR guidelines via the output interface; a power source disposed on the flexible substrate and connected to the one or more sensor arrays, the output interface, and the processor or the analog circuit; and wherein the sensor is self-contained.