Method and apparatus for determining a health status of an infant

A health status, infant technology, applied in the field of infant care, can solve the problems of difficult to reliably assess tension, unreliable determination of tension levels, heart rate variability characteristics are not widely used in neonatal intensive care units, etc., to achieve reliable and certain effects

Pending Publication Date: 2019-12-17
KONINKLJIJKE PHILIPS NV
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Various factors that can affect the HRV signature make the signature difficult to use reliably for stress assessment in infants and can lead to unreliable stress level determinations
Heart rate variability signatures are still not widely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) due to the potentially serious impact that external factors can have on heart rate variability signatures

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[0027] As described above, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the health status of an infant which overcomes the existing problems.

[0028] figure 1 A block diagram is shown of an apparatus 100 according to an embodiment, which may be used to determine the state of health of an infant. For example, the infant can be a neonate (eg, a premature infant, a full-term infant, or a late infant) or a child.

[0029] refer to figure 1 , the device 100 includes a control unit 102 that controls the operation of the device 100 and can implement the methods described herein. Control unit 102 may include one or more processors, processing units, multi-core processors or modules configured or programmed to control apparatus 100 in the manner described herein. In a particular implementation, the control unit 102 may include a plurality of software and / or hardware modules, each configured to perform or used to perform individual or multiple steps of a met...

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The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a control unit and a method of operating the apparatus to determine a health status of an infant. The method comprises acquiring contextual information associated with the infant (302) and acquiring at least one heart rate variability signal from the infant (304). The at least one heart rate variability signal acquired from the infant is processed to determine a heart rate variability feature (306) and the determined heart rate variability feature is assigned to a class according to the acquired contextual information (308). The determinedheart rate variability feature is compared to one or more corresponding heart rate variability features stored in the same class as the determined heart rate variability in a memory (310) and a health status of the infant is determined based on the comparison (312).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of infant care, and in particular to a method and device for determining the state of health of an infant. Background technique [0002] In the past, heart rate variability (HRV) characteristics have been used to assess an infant's comfort or nervousness level. However, HRV characteristics are affected by many external factors, such as localization, sleep state, and interventions. The various factors that can affect the HRV signature make the signature difficult to use reliably for stress assessment in infants and can lead to unreliable stress level determinations. Heart rate variability signatures are still not widely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) due to the potentially serious impact that external factors can have on heart rate variability signatures. [0003] Other systems have been developed to determine an infant's stress level based on characteristics other than heart rate variability. ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61B5/024
CPCA61B5/02405A61B2503/045A61B2505/03G16H50/30G16H40/63A61B5/01A61B5/08A61B5/1032A61B5/1102A61B5/1118A61B5/1176A61B5/4812A61B5/6852A61B5/7246A61B5/7475A61B2562/0247A61B2562/0271
Inventor L·N·阿塔拉J·V·W·S·韦特
Owner KONINKLJIJKE PHILIPS NV
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