Cardiac monitoring apparatus and monitor
First Claim
1. Cardiac monitoring apparatus for monitoring a patient'"'"'s heart activity, said cardiac monitoring apparatus comprising:
- (a) a first unit disposed externally of the patient'"'"'s body and including means for transmitting electromagnetic energy within the patient'"'"'s body;
(b) a second unit adapted to be surgically implanted within the patient'"'"'s body, said second unit including first means responsive to the externally generated electromagnetic energy for providing the sole energization of said second unit, second means coupled to sense first and second conditions of the patient'"'"'s heart for providing first and second electrical signals indicative of the first and second sensed conditions respectively, and third means for pulse-width modulating and transmitting one of said first and second electrical signals externally of the patient'"'"'s body to said first unit without distortion due to environmental noise or relative movement of said first and second unit, said third means sequentially transmits said first and second electrical signals externally of the patient'"'"'s body in first and second sequential time slots, respectively; and
(c) said first unit comprising decoding means responsive to said one modulated signal from said second unit for providing a third signal indicative of the sensed heart condition, and means responsive to said third signal for providing a manifestation of the patient'"'"'s heart activity.
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Abstract
Cardiac monitoring apparatus comprising a first external unit for transmitting electromagnetic energy within the patient'"'"'s body to be received by a second, surgically implanted unit within the patient'"'"'s body and adapted to be solely powered by the transmitted electromagnetic energy. The internal unit includes a monitoring circuit connected via electrodes coupled to first and second sites of the patient'"'"'s heart, for providing corresponding first and second signals to be first time multiplexed and then pulse-width modulated before being re-transmitted to the external unit. The external unit decodes the transmitted signals to provide diagnostic quality signals indicative of the patient'"'"'s EKG.
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14 Claims
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1. Cardiac monitoring apparatus for monitoring a patient'"'"'s heart activity, said cardiac monitoring apparatus comprising:
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(a) a first unit disposed externally of the patient'"'"'s body and including means for transmitting electromagnetic energy within the patient'"'"'s body; (b) a second unit adapted to be surgically implanted within the patient'"'"'s body, said second unit including first means responsive to the externally generated electromagnetic energy for providing the sole energization of said second unit, second means coupled to sense first and second conditions of the patient'"'"'s heart for providing first and second electrical signals indicative of the first and second sensed conditions respectively, and third means for pulse-width modulating and transmitting one of said first and second electrical signals externally of the patient'"'"'s body to said first unit without distortion due to environmental noise or relative movement of said first and second unit, said third means sequentially transmits said first and second electrical signals externally of the patient'"'"'s body in first and second sequential time slots, respectively; and (c) said first unit comprising decoding means responsive to said one modulated signal from said second unit for providing a third signal indicative of the sensed heart condition, and means responsive to said third signal for providing a manifestation of the patient'"'"'s heart activity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. Cardiac monitoring apparatus for monitoring the first and second activities at the first and second sites of a patient'"'"'s heart, each of the first and second heart activities occuring periodically normally, and each such occurence being of a limited duration, said monitoring apparatus comprising:
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(a) a first unit disposed externally of the patient'"'"'s body and including means for transmitting electromagnetic energy within the patient'"'"'s body; (b) a second unit adapted to be surgically implanted within the patient'"'"'s body, said second unit including means responsive to the externally generated energy for providing the sole energization of said second unit, second means coupled to sense the first and second activities of the patient'"'"'s heart for providing first and second electrical signals indicative of the first and second heart activities and of a corresponding limited duration, and third means for sequentially sampling the first and second electrical signals at a rate and of a duration to ensure repeated sampling of each of the first and second electrical signals and for pulse-width modulating the sampled first and second electrical signals for transmission in first and second time slots, respectively, whereby the modulated first and second electrical signals are transmitted without distortion due to extraneous noise or to relative movement of said first and second units; and (c) said first unit comprising decoding means responsive to said modulated first and second electrical signals from said second unit for providing third and fourth signals indicative of the sensed first and second heart activities, and means responsive to said third and fourth signals for providing manifestations of the patient'"'"'s first and second heart activities. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. Cardiac monitoring apparatus for monitoring a patient'"'"'s heart activity, said cardiac monitoring apparatus comprising:
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(a) a first unit disposed externally of the patient'"'"'s body and including means for transmitting electromagnetic energy within the patient'"'"'s body; (b) a second unit adapted to be surgically implanted within the patient'"'"'s body, said second unit including first means responsive to the externally generated electromagnetic energy for providing the sole energization of said second unit, second means coupled to sense first and second conditions of the patient'"'"'s heart for providing first and second electrical signals indicative of the first and second sensed heart conditions respectively, and third means for frequency modulating and transmitting one of said first and second electrical signals externally of the patient'"'"'s body to said first unit without distortion due to environmental noise or relative movement between said first and second units, said third means sequentially transmits said first-mentioned and said second signal externally of the patient'"'"'s body in first and second sequential time slots, respectively; and (c) said first unit comprising decoding means responsive to the one modulated signal from said second unit for providing a third signal indicative of the sensed heart condition, and means responsive to said third signal for providing a manifestation of the patient'"'"'s heart activity.
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