METHOD OF DIAGNOSING PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND REMOTE MONITORING OF PATIENTS AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL STATION FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A61B5/01 A61B5/02 A61B5/08 A61B5/145 A61B5/16 A61B5/28 G16H10/20 G16H50/20 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to a method of diagnosing pathological conditions and remote monitoring of patients and an electronic medical station for its implementation. The patient’s medical history is collected using an interactive survey, the patient’s clinical, laboratory and instrumental data are studied, analyzed and a diagnosis is made in accordance with the percentage of identified symptoms. The analysis is performed using scales containing symptoms of pathological conditions, by summing the number of symptoms identified in a particular patient and establishing their percentage of the total number of symptoms for each pathological condition. During the interactive survey, the frequency of blinking of the patient's eyes is determined. If the eye blink rate is in the range of 10–20 per minute or more than 35 per minute, the number of symptoms of the pathological condition for each diagnostic scale is increased by one. If the frequency of eye blinks is less than 10 per minute, the number of symptoms on each diagnostic scale is increased by two. The number of symptoms on the diagnostic scale for the syndromes of arterial hypertension, respiratory and chronic heart failure is increased by one when the pulse oximetry index equal to the ratio of oxygen saturation in tissues and the patient’s mean arterial pressure, decreases to less than 0.95. The total number of patient symptoms is calculated. Depending on the frequency of eye blinks and the pulse oximetry index, their percentage is determined in relation to the total number of symptoms for each pathological condition. The electronic medical station includes a computer to which a tonometer, pulse oximeter, electrocardiograph, scales, glucometer, thermometer and spirometer are connected. The computer is equipped with a monitor and video camera to measure the patient's eye blink rate. The station contains an electronic module for synchronizing and processing the video signal from the video camera and biosensor signals from the tonometer and pulse oximeter, ensuring synchronization of the time of measurement of these signals with the patient's answers to questions in interactive mode.

EFFECT: increase in the reliability of diagnosing pathological conditions of patients is achieved due to the expanded interpretation of data on the patient’s symptoms in real time by taking into account the relationship between the frequency of eye blinks and the pulse oximeter index during diagnosis, with simultaneous registration of readings from objective examination devices of the patient.

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