Tachyarrhythmia detection, differentiation and assessment
First Claim
1. A method employable during a defined tachycardia-tachyarrhythmia condition extant in a person for detecting, verifying and distinguishing ventricular and supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation, comprisingobtaining, from the person, heart-rate information to confirm the presence of such a defined condition,on such confirmation, collecting, from the person, time-frame-simultaneous ECG and heart-sound information,following said collecting, choosing selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, andutilizing the chosen, selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, characterizing the defined condition as resulting from one of (a) supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmia, (b) ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and (c) ventricular fibrillation.
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A method employable during a tachycardia-tachyarrhythmia condition in a person for detecting, verifying and distinguishing ventricular and supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation, including (a) confirming the presence of a tachyarrhythmia heart rate, (b) on such confirmation, collecting time-frame-simultaneous ECG and heart-sound information, (c) following such collecting, choosing selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, and (d) utilizing the chosen, selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, characterizing the defined condition as resulting from one of (a) supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmia, (b) ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and (c) ventricular fibrillation.
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1. A method employable during a defined tachycardia-tachyarrhythmia condition extant in a person for detecting, verifying and distinguishing ventricular and supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation, comprising
obtaining, from the person, heart-rate information to confirm the presence of such a defined condition, on such confirmation, collecting, from the person, time-frame-simultaneous ECG and heart-sound information, following said collecting, choosing selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, and utilizing the chosen, selected ECG time-span, and heart-sound intensity, data, characterizing the defined condition as resulting from one of (a) supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmia, (b) ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and (c) ventricular fibrillation.
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10. A method employable during a defined tachycardia-tachyarrhythmia condition extant in a person for detecting, verifying and distinguishing ventricular and supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation, comprising
collecting, from the person, time-frame-simultaneous ECG and heart-sound information, from the collected ECG information, determining whether the QRS interval in each heartbeat is different from normal, from the collected heart-sound information, determining whether the S1 heart-sound intensities are at least one of (a) different from normal, and (b) irregular from heartbeat-to-heartbeat, from the combined, collected ECG and heart-sound information, determining whether the QS1 interval in each heart beat is different from normal, and utilizing combinedly the results of said three determining steps, characterizing the defined condition as resulting from one of (a) supra-ventricular tachyarrhythmia, (b) ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and (c) ventricular fibrillation.
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