NEUOROLOGICAL CONDITION DETECTION UNIT AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME

摘要

A neurological condition detection unit can include a computer device that is connected to at least two leads that are connectable to a patient for evoking a response from that patient via an electrical current passed through the leads (e.g. a shock) and at plurality of sensors connected to the computer device to sense how the left side and right side of the patient's brain reacts to the evoked event (e.g. the shock). The stroke detection device and/or neurological condition detection unit can be configured to output a warning when one side of the patient's brain is determined to react differently than the opposite side of the patient's brain by at least a pre-selected threshold value. The warning can include an identification of a nearby care facility that may be best suited for providing care to a patient determined to have a neurological condition (e.g. a stroke).

主权项

1. A method for detecting a neurological condition comprising:
attaching evoked electrodes on opposite sides of a body; positioning sensors on the opposite sides of the body; communicatively connecting the evoked electrodes and the sensors to a computer device having non-transitory memory connected to a processor; using the computer device to shock the body via the evoked electrodes for a pre-selected number of shocks within a pre-selected time period; the computer device generating at least one of wave forms and curves that identify morphological features for responses from the pre-selected number of shocks the opposite sides of the body are measured to have; the computer device comparing the morphological features to determine a difference between a morphological feature for a left side of the body and a morphological feature for a right side of the body that is at or exceeds a pre-selected threshold; and the computer device generating a notification to identify a detection of a neurological condition in response to a result of the comparing of the morphological features indicating that the difference between the morphological feature for the left side of the body and the morphological feature for the right side of the body is at or exceeds the pre-selected threshold.