Patent ID: 8262584

Claim:
A system for processing continuous pressure-related signals derivable from one or more sensor(s) having location(s) inside or outside a body or body cavity of a human being or animal, said system comprising: a processing unit in said system having processing means for processing said signals, said processing means including: a) sampling means for sampling said signals from said sensor(s) via and receivable from said pressure transducer means at specific intervals, b) converter means for converting the sampled signals received from said sampling means into pressure related digital data with a time reference, c) identifying means for during selectable time sequence windows identifying from said digital data output from said converter means single pressure waves related to cardiac beat-induced pressure waves, related to artifacts, or a combination of cardiac beat-induced waves and artifacts, and identifying from the selectable time sequence windows included or selectable time sequence windows to further evaluate the single pressure waves, d) computing means for computing time sequence (TS.x) parameters from included or selected time sequence windows output from said identifying means, e) analyzing means for analyzing said time sequence (TS.x) parameters in the form of digital data related to said selectable time sequence windows, f) output means for outputting to device terminal means one or more pressure parameters related to a selectable number of said time sequence windows: f 1 ) mean wave amplitude (TS.MeanWavedP), f2) mean wave latency (TS.MeanWavedT), f3) mean wave rise time coefficient (TS.MeanWaveRT), f4) mean amplitude (TS.MeandP), f5) mean latency (TS.MeandT), f6) mean rise time coefficient (TS.MeanRT), f7) mean single wave pressure (TS.Mean sw P), g) display means linked to said output means via said device terminal means and capable of displaying output of said processing of the pressure-related signals as outputted from said output means, and h) power supply means powering consuming parts within the system.