MEDICAL EXAMINATION APPARATUS

• US 20080071184A1
• Filed: 11/26/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vandette Carter
• Original Assignee: Vandette Carter
• Inventors: Carter, Vandette
• Application Number:
  US11/945,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20080071184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/528
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/332 Portable devices specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/04 Electric stethoscopes microphones, acoustic transducers therefor H04R
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/08 Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings A61B8/02 - A61B8/06 take precedence

Abstract

An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument displays an EKG tracing on its screen simultaneously upon auscultation of the heart. The abdomen may also be investigated by displaying a sonogram. Wireless broadband technology may provide a closed circuit interface for real-time wireless transmission of acquired data. Examination requires none of a multiplicity of wires to untangle, bulky machines or a technician to be summoned. Regurgitation, heart size, ischemia and heart murmurs can all be evaluated by a visual and auditory methods.

Claims

1. An arrangement for placing electrodes on a living body for receiving electrical signals from the body, said arrangement comprising a plurality of cords, said cords each having a bundle of wires, each wire being configured at its end for an electrode for acquiring an electrical signal from said body, a first of said cords being configured so that respective electrodes associated with said first cord receive signal from a first side of the body, and a second of said cords being configured so that respective electrodes associated with said second cord receive signal from a second side of the body.

2. An arrangement for placing electrodes on a living body for receiving electrical signals from the body, said arrangement comprising a plurality of cords, said cords each having a bundle of wires, each wire being configured at its end for an electrode for acquiring an electrical signal from said body, wherein said plurality comprises three cords, a first of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving signal from both arms, a second of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving precordial electrodes, and a third one of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving signals from the both legs.