| Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Index to Assess the Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) |
| The invention is a method of predicting a pathological medical condition using an algorithm based on HRV and several other routinely measured physiological variables. |
| According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, of the 1.4 million who sustain a TBI each year in the United States: 50,000 die, 235,000 are hospitalized, and 1.1 million are treated and released from an emergency department. |
| The method provides an algorithm that can be normalized to a simple scale for interpretation by a health care provider, such as an ambulance technician. The technology is an automated triage tool that aids decision making about the severity of trauma. |
| Kenneth G. Proctor and Robert C. Duncan |
