Cable harness for an electrocardiogram device

• US 4,573,474 A
• Filed: 07/27/1984
• Issued: 03/04/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James S. Scibetta
• Original Assignee: James S. Scibetta
• Inventors: Scibetta, James S.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shein, Mitchell J.
• Application Number:
  US06/635,254
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: 128/419 D, 128/639, 128/644, 128/695-696, 128/731, 128/802
• US Class Current: 600/382
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/303 Patient cord assembly, e.g. cable harness
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/308 for electrocardiography [ECG]

Abstract

A cable harness device for use with an EKG machine in which the cable harness device includes a central unit having spring biased laterally extending arms, side arms perpendicularly attached to the lateral arms, a swivel joint mounted on top of the central unit, a boom attached to the swivel joint; and a plurality of EKG electrodes attached to the boom, lateral arms, and side arms to monitor the electrical activity of the heart. The cable harness device of the present invention permits the operator to quickly remove the chest electrodes attached to the boom by rotating the boom away from the chest in order to permit heart message if cardiac arrest occurs while the patient is attached to the EKG machine. This arrangement also permits the side arm and lateral electrodes to remain attached to the patient to monitor the electrical activity of the heart while heart message is being given. In the event that it may be necessary to quickly remove the entire cable harness device, the apparatus can be grasped at the central unit and merely pulled upwardly and away from the patient which will detach all the electrodes from the patient. Furthermore, the device of the present invention is adapted to be employed on a wide variety of sizes of patients since the lateral arms are spring biased since the side arm and lateral arm electrodes are telescopically adjustable.

Claims

1. A cable harness device for use with an EKG machine or the like comprising:

a central support unit;

at least one pair of laterally extending elongated arms mounted to said central unit, each of said arms supporting an EKG electrode for engagement with a patient'"'"'s upper torso;

an elongated boom mounted to said central unit and supporting an EKG electrode for engagement with a patient'"'"'s chest area; and

means for electrically connecting said electrodes to an EKG machine.

2. The cable harness device of claim 1 wherein each lateral arm has attached thereto a side arm.

3. The cable harness device of claim 2 in which each of said side arms has at least one EKG electrode attached thereto positioned to contact a patient'"'"'s axilla area.

4. The cable harness device of claim 2 wherein said side arm electrode is disk shaped.

5. The cable harness device of claim 2 including adjustment means for moving said side arm electrodes toward or away from said side arms.

6. The cable harness device of claim 5 wherein said adjustment means comprises means for telescopically connecting said lateral arm electrode to its associated lateral arm and for telescopically connecting said side arm electrode to its associated side arm.

7. The cable harness device of claim 1 including means for biasing said arms toward each other so that said electrodes are pressed into contact against a patient'"'"'s upper torso.

8. The cable harness device of claim 2 wherein said side arm is perpendicular to said lateral arm at their juncture.

9. The cable harness device of claim 2 including adjustment means for moving said lateral arm electrodes toward and away from said lateral arm and for moving said side arm electrodes toward and away from said side arms.

10. The cable harness device of claim 1 including means for rotatably attaching said boom to said central unit.

11. The cable harness device of claim 10 wherein said attaching means allows said boom to rotate in a substantially horizontal plane.

12. The cable harness device of claim 1 wherein said boom is curved.

13. The cable harness device of claim 1 in which said at least one electrode on said boom is a plurality of electrodes spaced along said boom so as to contact spaced locations on a patient'"'"'s chest.

14. The cable harness device of claim 3 wherein said plurality of electrodes comprises six electrodes.

15. The cable harness device of claim 1 wherein said at least one lateral arm electrode comprises a plate-like member having at least two opposed arcuate edges.

16. The cable harness device of claim 1 including adjustment means for moving said lateral arm electrodes toward or away from said lateral arms.

17. The cable harness device of claim 1 including means for pivotally attaching said lateral arms to said central unit such that said arms are vertically adjustable.

18. A cable harness device for use with an EKG machine or the like comprising:

a central support unit;

at least one pair of laterally extending elongated arms pivotally mounted to said support unit so as to be vertically adjustable, each of said arms supporting an EKG electrode for engagement with a patient'"'"'s upper torso;

an elongated boom pivotally mounted for rotation in a substantially horizontal plane to said central unit and supporting a plurality of EKG electrodes for engagement with a patient'"'"'s chest area; and

means for electrically connecting said electrodes to an EKG machine.

19. The cable harness device of claim 18 including means for biasing said lateral arms toward each other so that said lateral arm electrodes are pressed into contact against the patient'"'"'s upper torso.

20. The cable harness of claim 19 wherein each of said lateral arms supports a second EKG electrode for engagement with a patient'"'"'s axilla area.

21. The cable harness device of claim 20 including adjustment means for moving said lateral arm electrodes toward and away from said lateral arm.