Electrocardiographic recording method and means
First Claim
1. A method of producing an electrocardiogram on a paper record movable at a slow speed and a fast speed, said electrocardiogram containing the typical and aberrant ekg signal complexes found in the electrocardiographic heart beat data from the patient, said method reducing the quantity of data so recorded by the elimination of redundancies and comprising:
- identifying, in the electrocardiographic patient data, the ekg signal complexes associated with each heart beat;
establishing an ekg signal complex pattern from the complexes so identified exemplifying the typical ekg signal complexes in the patient data;
recording the ekg signal complex pattern on the movable record at the slow speed;
detecting ekg signal complexes in the patient data which are aberrant;
recording the aberrant ekg signal complex on the movable record at the fast speed.
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Abstract
A method and means for graphically recording electrocardiographic data reduces the amount of redundant data displayed so as to reduce the size of the electrocardiogram. However, arrhythmias and other aberrant ekg signal complexes are reproduced in context for diagnostic purposes. Typical or normal signal complexes received from the patient are used to establish an ekg signal complex pattern. In the absence of aberrant signal complexes, this pattern is recorded in lieu of the patient data at a speed which is less than the normal recording speed to form the electrocardiogram. One such pattern may be recorded for every 25 complexes in the patient data, thereby achieving the reduction in the size of electrocardiogram. When an aberrant signal complex occurs, it is entered in the electrocardiogram at the normal higher recording speed. For repetitiously occurring aberrant signal complexes, only certain occurrences of such aberrancies are entered in the electrocardiogram. The proportionality of aberrant to normal signal complexes appearing in the electrocardiogram is thus maintained the same as that appearing in the electrocardiographic data from the patient.
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1. A method of producing an electrocardiogram on a paper record movable at a slow speed and a fast speed, said electrocardiogram containing the typical and aberrant ekg signal complexes found in the electrocardiographic heart beat data from the patient, said method reducing the quantity of data so recorded by the elimination of redundancies and comprising:
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identifying, in the electrocardiographic patient data, the ekg signal complexes associated with each heart beat; establishing an ekg signal complex pattern from the complexes so identified exemplifying the typical ekg signal complexes in the patient data; recording the ekg signal complex pattern on the movable record at the slow speed; detecting ekg signal complexes in the patient data which are aberrant; recording the aberrant ekg signal complex on the movable record at the fast speed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. Apparatus for producing an electrocardiogram containing the typical and aberrant signal complexes found in the electrocardiographic heart beat signal from the patient, said apparatus comprising:
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input means for receiving the electrocardiographic signals from the patient; signal processing means coupled to said input means for identifying the ekg signal complex associated with each heart beat; comparator means coupled to said signal processing means for ascertaining typical and aberrant signal complexes; pattern register means coupled to said comparator for establishing a typical ekg signal complex pattern from said typical ekg signal complexes; recording means operable at a slow speed and at a fast speed for making a graphic recording, said means being coupled to said pattern register for recording said pattern at the slow speed; and aberrant signal complex signal processing means coupled to said comparator means for receiving the aberrant signal complexes, said signal processing means being coupled to said recording means for recording the aberrant signal complexes at the fast speed. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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