Operation of wireless biopotential monitoring system
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1. A system of obtaining a calculated Lead I standard EKG measurement waveform from unconnected EKG sensors placed on a patient'"'"'s body, comprising:
- a) a base station comprising a wireless transceiver for two-way communication with multiple individual, wireless sensors;
b) Right Arm and Left Arm individual unconnected wireless sensors constructed and arranged for establishing a communication with the base station, each sensor adapted for receiving electrical contacts;
the plurality of individual wireless sensors including;
ii. the Right Arm sensor having first and second input contacts defining a first line, with a voltage drop C, between the first sensor first and second input contacts; and
ii. the Left Arm sensor having first and second input contacts defining a second line, with a voltage drop, D, between the second sensor first and second input contacts;
c) whereby the Right Arm sensor first and second input contacts and the Left Arm sensor first and second input contacts define a quadrilateral when placed on a patient'"'"'s body with the first and second lines being two sides of the quadrilateral;
d) a third line and a fourth line of the quadrilateral being parallel;
e) the third line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor first contact and second sensor first contact and having an EKG voltage drop, A;
f) the fourth line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor second contact and second sensor second contact having an EKG voltage drop, B;
g) the sensors adapted to obtain and send a measurement of the C and D voltage drops to the base station, and h) the base station adapted to receive the measurement of the C and D voltage drops from the sensors and calculate the EKG voltage drop B, representing Lead I, by using the measured C and D voltage drops and an attenuation value x, between the amplitude of A and the amplitude of B.
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Abstract
Multiple wireless sensor assemblies are individually attached to standard body locations for EKG signal recording. The sensors measure small biopotential signals at short distances on the body sites, and the small signals are used to calculate an output signal that resembles a conventional EKG measurement signal over the long distance between the sensors. An algorithm is employed to calculate the standard EKG signal using the two measurement sites'"'"' data and an attenuation value between sensor contacts which has been previously measured.
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1. A system of obtaining a calculated Lead I standard EKG measurement waveform from unconnected EKG sensors placed on a patient'"'"'s body, comprising:
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a) a base station comprising a wireless transceiver for two-way communication with multiple individual, wireless sensors;
b) Right Arm and Left Arm individual unconnected wireless sensors constructed and arranged for establishing a communication with the base station, each sensor adapted for receiving electrical contacts;
the plurality of individual wireless sensors including;
ii. the Right Arm sensor having first and second input contacts defining a first line, with a voltage drop C, between the first sensor first and second input contacts; and
ii. the Left Arm sensor having first and second input contacts defining a second line, with a voltage drop, D, between the second sensor first and second input contacts;
c) whereby the Right Arm sensor first and second input contacts and the Left Arm sensor first and second input contacts define a quadrilateral when placed on a patient'"'"'s body with the first and second lines being two sides of the quadrilateral;
d) a third line and a fourth line of the quadrilateral being parallel;
e) the third line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor first contact and second sensor first contact and having an EKG voltage drop, A;
f) the fourth line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor second contact and second sensor second contact having an EKG voltage drop, B;
g) the sensors adapted to obtain and send a measurement of the C and D voltage drops to the base station, and h) the base station adapted to receive the measurement of the C and D voltage drops from the sensors and calculate the EKG voltage drop B, representing Lead I, by using the measured C and D voltage drops and an attenuation value x, between the amplitude of A and the amplitude of B. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system of obtaining a calculated standard biopotential measurement waveform from unconnected biopotential sensors adapted to be placed on a patient'"'"'s body, comprising:
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a) a plurality of individual unconnected wireless sensors constructed and arranged for establishing wireless communication, each sensor having first and second electrical contacts;
the plurality of individual sensors including;
i. a first sensor having its first and second contacts defining a first line, with a voltage drop C, between the first sensor first and second contacts; and
ii. a second sensor having its first and second contacts defining a second line, with a voltage drop, D, between the second sensor first and second contacts;
b) whereby the first sensor first and second contacts and the second sensor first and second contacts define a quadrilateral when placed on a patient'"'"'s body with the first and second lines being two sides of the quadrilateral;
c) a third line and a fourth line of the quadrilateral being parallel;
d) the third line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor first contact and second sensor first contact and having a voltage drop, A;
e) the fourth line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor second contact and second sensor second contact having a voltage drop, B;
f) the sensors adapted to obtain a measurement of the C and D voltage drops;
g) each sensor adapted to communicate its respective C or D value to a data processing unit; and
h) the data processing unit adapted to receive the measurement of the C and D voltage drops from the sensors and calculate the voltage drop B, representing the desired standard biopotential measurement voltage drop, by using the measured C and D voltage drops and an attenuation value x. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20)
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18. A system of obtaining a calculated standard biopotential measurement waveform with first and second unconnected biopotential sensors placed on a patient'"'"'s body, wherein:
the standard biopotential measurement is calculated using a first measurement of differential potential value between two inputs of the first sensor and a second measurement of differential potential value between two inputs of the second sensor;
the second measurement being subtracted from the first measurement and the result of the subtraction being divided by a scaling factor, where the scaling factor includes an attenuation ratio between two previously measured standard biopotential measurement waveforms.
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21. A system of obtaining a calculated standard biopotential measurement waveform from unconnected biopotential sensors placed on a patient'"'"'s body, comprising:
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a) a base station comprising a wireless transceiver for two-way communication with multiple individual, wireless sensors;
b) a plurality of individual unconnected wireless sensors constructed and arranged for establishing a communication with the base station, each sensor adapted for receiving three electrical contacts including first and second input contacts and a reference contact;
the plurality of individual wireless sensors including;
i. a first sensor having its first and second input contacts defining a first line, with a biopotential signal C, between the first sensor first and second input contacts; and
ii. a second sensor having its first and second input contacts defining a second line, with a biopotential signal, D, between the second sensor first and second input contacts;
c) whereby the first sensor first and second input contacts and the second sensor first and second input contacts define a quadrilateral when placed on a patient'"'"'s body with the first and second lines being two sides of the quadrilateral;
d) the third line and the fourth line of the quadrilateral being parallel;
e) the third line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor first contact and second sensor first contact and having a biopotential signal, A;
f) the fourth line of the quadrilateral extending between the first sensor second contact and second sensor second contact having a biopotential signal, B;
g) the sensors adapted to obtain and send a measurement of the C and D biopotential signals to the base station, and h) the base station adapted to receive the measurement of the C and D biopotential signals from the sensors and calculate the biopotential signal B, representing the desired standard biopotential measurement waveform, by using the measured C and D biopotential signals and an attenuation value x, between the amplitude of A and the amplitude of B. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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