Patents Assigned to CRA Associates, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7225022
    Abstract: A method of data management for optimizing the patient outcome from the provision of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is described. This method describes a process by which sets of dynamic cardiopulmonary dependent variables are measured during steady-state conditions, displayed, and translated into quantitative and qualitative measurements while the independent variables of CRT, device lead placement and atrial-ventricular and interventricular delay settings of bi-ventricular pacemaker systems, are altered by a physician. In combination with visual observation and computer-assisted ranking of the dependent variables, a physician can utilize the resulting information to render decisions on the optimal choice of the independent variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: CRA Associates, Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen T. Anderson, Dean J. MacCarter
  • Publication number: 20040254482
    Abstract: A method of data management for optimizing the patient outcome from the provision of external counterpulsation (ECP) therapy is described. This method describes a process by which sets of dynamic cardiopulmonary dependent variables are measured during steady-state conditions, displayed, and translated into quantitative and qualitative measurements while the independent variables of ECP, cuff inflation duration and cuff inflation pressure settings of ECP systems, are altered by a physician. In combination with visual observation and computer-assisted ranking of the dependent variables, a physician can utilize the resulting information to render decisions on the optimal choice of the independent variables. The method will enable physicians to collect, view, track and manage complicated data using well-understood visualization techniques to better understand the consequences, acutely and chronically, of their therapeutic actions in general, and of their provision of ECP therapy in particular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: CRA Associates, LTD
    Inventors: Stephen T. Anderson, Dean J. MacCarter
  • Publication number: 20040181260
    Abstract: A method of data management for optimizing the patient outcome from the provision of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is described. This method describes a process by which sets of dynamic cardiopulmonary dependent variables are measured during steady-state conditions, displayed, and translated into quantitative and qualitative measurements while the independent variables of CRT, device lead placement and atrial-ventricular and interventricular delay settings of bi-ventricular pacemaker systems, are altered by a physician. In combination with visual observation and computer-assisted ranking of the dependent variables, a physician can utilize the resulting information to render decisions on the optimal choice of the independent variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: CRA Associates, LTD
    Inventors: Stephen T. Anderson, Dean J. MacCarter