Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1992-04-09
1993-12-28
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128702, A61B 50472
Patent
active
052730492
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for detecting cardiac arrhythmias are disclosed. The detecting method and apparatus sense cardiac electrical signals when the heart is functioning in a known cardiac state, such as a physiologically normal cardiac state, then define and store an array of amplitude windows wherein each sample in the array of amplitude windows corresponds to a sample of the known cardiac signal. Each amplitude window delineates a range of signal amplitudes bracketing the amplitude of the known cardiac electrical signal sample. The array of amplitude windows corresponds in time to periodically occurring known cardiac signal samples occurring within a predetermined time of interest. Subsequently, when the heart is functioning in an unknown cardiac state, the method and apparatus monitor cardiac electrical signals by time aligning samples and comparing, on a sample by sample basis, the amplitude of unknown state cardiac signal samples with the amplitude range within the stored array of amplitude window samples. The relative number of samples falling outside the amplitude windows is the basis for analyzing cardiac signal morphology for the purpose of detecting cardiac arrhythmias.
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Greenhut Saul E.
Steinhaus Bruce M.
Getzow Scott M.
Kamm William E.
Telectronics Pacing Systems Inc.
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