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Dr. Andrew Seely awarded patent for system that may allow earlier diagnosis of organ failure and systemic infection
August 8, 2013
Dr. Andrew Seely
has been awarded a
U.S. patent
for inventing a system that may help doctors diagnose certain life-threatening conditions much earlier. Dr. Seely’s system uses complex mathematics to analyze how patterns of variation of patient vital signs (such as heart rate and breathing rate variability) change over time. This information can provide early warning signs of systemic infection and impending organ failure in high-risk patients. This is the second U.S. patent awarded to Dr. Seely and his
Dynamical Analysis Laboratory
for this work. Dr. Seely has founded
Therapeutic Monitoring Systems
to advance this research.
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