Method and apparatus for detecting heartbeats

Details Method and apparatus for detecting heartbeats Method and apparatus for detecting heartbeats

1988-06-10

1990-06-19

Jaworski, Francis

Surgery

Truss

Pad

128695, 128697, A61N 100

Patent

active

049343769

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of heartbeats in an ECG signal which may also include pacer artifacts, comprising analysis of the ECG signal for providing a heartbeat signal indicating detection of the occurrence of a heartbeat, analysis of the ECG signal for providing a pacer artifact signal indicating detection of the occurrence of a pacer artifact, analysis of the ECG signal in a manner independent from the first-mentioned analysis for determining if a portion of the ECG signal which follows detection of a pacer artifact has changes in its amplitude level which indicate the validity of the heartbeat indicating signal, and use of the result of the last-mentioned analysis to control the providing of the heartbeat indicating signal by the first-mentioned analysis.

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patent: 4537201 (1985-08-01), Delle-Vedove et al.
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