Sudden cardiac arrest monitoring system
First Claim
1. A wearable heart monitoring system for monitoring of a cardiac arrhythmia, said system comprising ECG sensors for providing patient heart data, a conditioning and interpreting circuitry for processing the heart data, alarm generation means for generating an alarm, characterized in that said conditioning and interpreting circuitry comprises a real-time evaluator for measuring and analyzing a histogram of a temporal distribution of an interval between successive corresponding characteristic peaks in an ECG spectrum during a plurality of successive heart cycles, the alarm generation means being arranged to generate an alarm based on the analysis of said histogram.
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Abstract
A wearable heart monitoring system (1) for monitoring of a cardiac arrhythmia, said system comprising ECG sensors (3) for providing patient heart data, a conditioning and interpreting circuitry (4) for processing the heart data, alarm generation means for generating an alarm, said conditioning and interpreting circuitry comprises a real-time evaluator for measuring and analyzing a histogram of a temporal distribution of an interval between successive corresponding characteristic peaks in an ECG spectrum during a plurality of successive heart cycles, the alarm generation means being arranged to generate an alarm based on the analysis of said histogram.
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- 1. A wearable heart monitoring system for monitoring of a cardiac arrhythmia, said system comprising ECG sensors for providing patient heart data, a conditioning and interpreting circuitry for processing the heart data, alarm generation means for generating an alarm, characterized in that said conditioning and interpreting circuitry comprises a real-time evaluator for measuring and analyzing a histogram of a temporal distribution of an interval between successive corresponding characteristic peaks in an ECG spectrum during a plurality of successive heart cycles, the alarm generation means being arranged to generate an alarm based on the analysis of said histogram.
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8. A method for alerting a patient for an substantial probability of a cardiac arrest event, said method being based on results of continuous monitoring of a cardiac activity by means of a cardiac monitoring system comprising a set of electrodes, a conditioning and interpreting circuitry and alarm generation means, characterized in that said method comprises the steps of:
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performing a continuous acquisition of data related to the cardiac activity by means of the electrodes;
processing the data for extracting a characteristic parameter by means of the conditioning and interpreting circuitry;
performing a classification of the extracted characteristic parameter;
generating an alarm with alarm means in case the characteristic parameters falls within an alarm-relevant category. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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