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Implantable cardioverter/defibrillator and method employing cross-phase spectrum analysis for arrhythmia detection

  • US 5,292,348 A
  • Filed: 04/13/1992
  • Issued: 03/08/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of detecting and reverting pathological heart rhythms of a patient, comprising the steps of:

  • sensing each of a plurality of electrical heart rhythm signals of the patient at two different locations;

    calculating cross-phase spectra of sensed heart rhythm signals;

    classifying the heart rhythms based upon information contained in said cross-phase spectra; and

    ,delivering appropriate therapy to the patient'"'"'s heart to revert heart rhythms classified as pathological.

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