Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular
Patent
1998-07-31
1999-09-14
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Cardiovascular
600518, A61B 504, A61B 505
Patent
active
059514841
ABSTRACT:
A method for detecting a patient's susceptibility to arrhythmias and cardiac tissue abnormality is disclosed. The method consists of using a computer, a display, software loaded onto the computer that generates graphical user interfaces (GUIs), an electronic interface, and a plurality of electrodes. The electronics interface is in electronic communication with the computer, and further in electronic communication with the electrodes that are placed by self-adhesion at predetermined locations on a test subject. According to one aspect of the invention, the method enables a user, typically a medical professional, to initiate, with minimal input, certain diagnostic tests involving observing and analyzing a series of QRS complexes, some of which are biased with a subpacing current, and others of which are unbiased. The signals are then compared, and the differences are analyzed to detect a patient's susceptibility to arrhythmias and cardiac tissue abnormality.
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Hoium Harold H.
Ryan Stephen J.
Harbinger Medical, Inc.
Kamm William E.
Layno Carl H.
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