Multi-parameter acquisition of ECG and related physiologic data employing conventional ECG lead conductors
First Claim
1. Two-part apparatus for operative connection to the distal end of a set of conventional ECG lead conductors for collecting from a person, and for transferring to a region outside of that person in a manner which enables such transferring to take place solely via conductors which form part of such a lead conductor set, plural-parameter physiologic (PPP) data, including ECG data, said apparatus comprising a first part including circuit substructure which is directly and operatively connectable to one or more conductors in such a lead-conductor set, a second part which is detachably connectable to said first part, and which includes circuit substructure that is detachably connectable to the circuit substructure in said first part, and person-proximity, plural-parameter, data-gathering sensor (PPP) structure carried on said second part and operatively connected to the circuit substructure in said second part, attachment of said first and second parts producing operative joinder of said two circuit substructures into a cooperative co-action circuit which enables the transfer of gathered PPP data from said sensor structure to one or more conductors in such a lead-conductor set.
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Abstract
A system involving disconnectably connectable sensor and adaptor units which can be employed to allow for the collection and communication, along with ECG data, of other physiologic parameter data whose condition is helpful in a evaluating communicative ECG data. Connection between the adaptor and sensor units of the invention effects the establishment of circuitry which allows (a) for the use of conventional ECG lead conductors alone to be responsible for carrying all categories of data, (b) for providing fail-safe communication of ECG data, and (c) for defining through different interfacial connective structures the actual characters of other-parameter data that will be communicated outwardly from a subject.
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1. Two-part apparatus for operative connection to the distal end of a set of conventional ECG lead conductors for collecting from a person, and for transferring to a region outside of that person in a manner which enables such transferring to take place solely via conductors which form part of such a lead conductor set, plural-parameter physiologic (PPP) data, including ECG data, said apparatus comprising
a first part including circuit substructure which is directly and operatively connectable to one or more conductors in such a lead-conductor set, a second part which is detachably connectable to said first part, and which includes circuit substructure that is detachably connectable to the circuit substructure in said first part, and person-proximity, plural-parameter, data-gathering sensor (PPP) structure carried on said second part and operatively connected to the circuit substructure in said second part, attachment of said first and second parts producing operative joinder of said two circuit substructures into a cooperative co-action circuit which enables the transfer of gathered PPP data from said sensor structure to one or more conductors in such a lead-conductor set.
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