Cardiac and sleep monitoring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025235112-A1
Application number	US-202519028469-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 17, 2025
Priority date	Nov 11, 2015
Publication date	Jul 24, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An apparatus to monitor at least one sleep parameter and/or at least one cardiac parameter.

First claim

1 . An apparatus comprising:
a monitoring resource to monitor at least one sleep-related parameter and at least one cardiac-related parameter.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource to perform the monitoring at least partially based on sensed physiologic-related information.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the sensed physiologic-related information comprises sensed cardiac information, and
the monitoring resource to determine whether the at least one sensed cardiac parameter corresponds to a negative cardiac condition for the patient.

4 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein upon determination of the presence of a negative cardiac condition, the monitor resource is to produce a notification.

5 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the negative cardiac condition comprises at least one of:
premature beats; a supraventricular arrhythmia; a ventricular arrhythmia; a bradyarrhythmia; hypertension; heart failure; and chronotropic incompetence.

6 . The apparatus of claim 3 , the monitoring resource to determine any negative cardiac conditions which are not responsive to obstructive sleep apnea treatment for the patient.

7 . The apparatus of claim 3 , the monitoring resource to determine any negative cardiac conditions which are responsive to obstructive sleep apnea treatment for the patient.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource to determine a relationship between the respective determined at least one sleep-related parameter and the at least one cardiac-related parameter.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource comprising a user interface to display a trend of the at least one cardiac parameter and the at least one sleep parameter over a monitoring period.

10 . The apparatus of claim 2 , the monitoring resource to receive the sensed physiologic information from an implantable sensor.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource to receive the sensed physiologic information from an external sensor.

12 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the external sensor comprises a non-contact sensor.

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , comprising at least one sensor to sense the physiologic information, the at least one sensor comprises at least one of:
a pressure sensor; an accelerometer; an impedance sensor; an ultrasonic sensor; a radiofrequency sensor; a non-contact sensor; an optical sensor; an acoustic sensor; an airflow sensor; an image sensor; an EMG sensor; and an ECG sensor.

14 . The apparatus of claim 1 , comprising:
a stimulation element to stimulate airway-patency-related body tissue according to an obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) treatment period, and the monitoring resource to perform the monitoring regarding the respective at least one sleep parameter and cardiac parameter relative to the OSA treatment period.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , comprising:
a non-cardiac pulse generator to implement the OSA treatment period via the stimulation element.

16 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource comprising:
a processing resource to execute machine readable instructions, stored in a non-transitory medium, to perform the monitoring of the at least one sleep-related parameter and the at least one cardiac-related parameter.

17 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring resource is implemented via at least one of:
a mobile device; a dedicated station; a portal; a user interface displayable via at least one of a mobile device, a dedicated station, a portal.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring resource is located at least partially external to the patient.

19 . The apparatus of claim 1 , the monitoring resource to perform the monitoring relative to a monitoring period.

20 . The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the monitoring period is independent of an OSA treatment period, and the monitoring period has a duration at least one order of magnitude greater than a duration of the OSA treatment period.

Assignees

• Inspire Medical Systems Inc

Inventors

• Verzal Kevin
• Lee Kent
• Rondoni John
• Dieken Dave

Classifications

• A61B5/363

  Detecting tachycardia or bradycardia · CPC title

• A61B5/361

  Detecting fibrillation · CPC title

• G06F21/6245

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• H04L9/3215

  using a plurality of channels (network architectures or network communication protocols using different networks H04L63/18) · CPC title

• A61N1/37211

  Means for communicating with stimulators · CPC title