System and method for displaying a histogram of cardiac events

• US 8,032,208 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2008
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Lindh, Par, Stahmann, Jeffrey E., Kalgren, James, Wentkowski, Rene H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schaetzle; Kennedy
• Application Number:
  US12/169,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20080269827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 600/523
• US Class Current: 600/523
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/339 Displays specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37247 User interfaces, e.g. input or presentation means
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Systems, devices and methods are provided for displaying statistical distributions of cardiac events. A device embodiment comprises circuitry adapted to communicate with a medical device that is adapted to acquire data regarding cardiac events occurring at two or more cardiac sites, and display means for displaying a histogram of the data as two or more statistical distributions for the two or more cardiac sites. The histogram includes a number of histogram bins. At least one of the histogram bins includes both a representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a first cardiac site and a representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a second cardiac site. Other embodiments are provided herein.

Claims

1. A system for representing cardiac event data, comprising:

a memory for storing cardiac event data for a first cardiac site and cardiac event data for a second cardiac site;

a display device; and

a processor adapted to communicate with the memory and the display device to display a histogram of the cardiac event data, wherein the histogram includes a plurality of histogram bins where the same histogram bin includes a representation of cardiac event data for the first cardiac site and a representation of cardiac event data for the second cardiac site.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the histogram of the cardiac event data includes a first statistical distribution for the first cardiac site and a second statistical distribution for the second cardiac site; and

the representation of cardiac event data for the first cardiac site and cardiac event data for the second cardiac site includes a representation of at least a portion of the first statistical distribution for the first cardiac site and at least a portion of the second statistical distribution for the second cardiac site.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising circuitry adapted to communicate with an implantable medical device, wherein the implantable medical device is adapted to acquire the cardiac event data, and wherein the system is adapted to retrieve the cardiac event data from the medical device to store the cardiac event data in the memory.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the cardiac event data includes cardiac event data for a contralateral chamber sites.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the cardiac event data for both a first cardiac site and a second cardiac site includes cardiac event data for a single cardiac camber chamber.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the same histogram bin includes a representation of cardiac event data for the first cardiac site vertically adjacent to the cardiac event data for the second cardiac site.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the same histogram bin includes a representation of cardiac event data for the first cardiac site horizontally adjacent to the cardiac event data for the second cardiac site.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the first cardiac site includes a first right ventricular site, and the second cardiac site includes a second right ventricular site;

or

the first cardiac site includes a first left ventricular site, and the second cardiac site includes a second left ventricular site;

or

the first cardiac site includes a first right atrial site, and the second cardiac site includes a second right atrial site;

or

the first cardiac site includes a first left atrial site, and the second cardiac site includes a second left atrial site.

9. A method implemented using processing circuitry executing stored executable instructions, the method comprising:

retrieving cardiac event data for a first cardiac site and cardiac event data for a second cardiac site from a memory; and

displaying a histogram of the cardiac event data for the first cardiac site and cardiac event data for the second cardiac site, wherein displaying the histogram includes;

displaying a plurality of histogram bins; and

representing cardiac event data for the first cardiac site and cardiac event data for the second cardiac site in the same histogram bin.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

retrieving includes retrieving both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for both the first and second cardiac sites; and

representing includes representing both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the first cardiac site and both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the second cardiac site in one of the plurality of histogram bins.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein representing includes representing the cardiac event data for the first cardiac site vertically adjacent within the same histogram bin to the cardiac event data for second cardiac site.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein representing includes representing the cardiac event data for the first cardiac site horizontally adjacent within the same histogram bin to the cardiac event data for second cardiac site.

13. A method implemented using processing circuitry executing stored executable instructions, the method comprising:

retrieving cardiac event data for both a first left ventricular site and a second left ventricular site from a memory; and

displaying a histogram of the cardiac event data, wherein displaying the histogram includes;

displaying a plurality of histogram bins; and

representing cardiac event data for the first left ventricular site and the second left ventricular site in the same histogram bin.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

retrieving includes retrieving a first statistical distribution for the first left ventricular site and a second statistical distribution for the second left ventricular site; and

representing includes representing at least a portion of the first statistical distribution for the first left ventricular site and at least a portion of the second statistical distribution for the second left ventricular site.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising communicating with an implantable medical device, wherein the implantable medical device is adapted to acquire the cardiac event data, and wherein communicating with the implantable medical device includes retrieving the cardiac event data for the first left ventricular site and the cardiac event data for the second left ventricular site from the implantable medical device to store in the memory.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein:

retrieving includes retrieving both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the first left ventricular site and both paced event data and sensed intrinsic data for the second left ventricular site; and

representing includes representing both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the first left ventricular site and both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the second left ventricular site in the same histogram bin.

17. A method implemented using processing circuitry executing stored executable instructions, the method comprising:

retrieving cardiac event data for a left ventricular site and cardiac event data for a right ventricular site from a memory; and

displaying a histogram of the cardiac event data for the left ventricular site and the cardiac event data for the right ventricular site, wherein displaying the histogram includes;

displaying a plurality of histogram bins; and

representing the cardiac event data for the left ventricular site and the cardiac event data for the right ventricular site in the same histogram bin.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein:

retrieving includes retrieving a first statistical distribution for the left ventricular site and a second statistical distribution for the right ventricular site; and

representing includes representing at least a portion of the first statistical distribution for the left ventricular site and at least a portion of the second statistical distribution for the right ventricular site.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising communicating with an implantable medical device, wherein the implantable medical device is adapted to acquire the cardiac event data, and wherein communicating with the implantable medical device includes retrieving the cardiac event data for the left ventricular site and the cardiac event data for the right ventricular site from the implantable medical device to store in the memory.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein:

retrieving includes retrieving both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the left ventricular site and both paced event data and sensed intrinsic data for the right ventricular site; and

representing includes representing both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the left ventricular site and both paced event data and sensed intrinsic event data for the right ventricular site in the same histogram bin.

21. A method implemented using processing circuitry executing stored executable instructions, the method comprising:

counting right ventricular sense (RVS) events, right ventricular pace (RVP) events, and left ventricular pace (LVP) events, wherein LVP events includes only left ventricular pacing events in which no right ventricular pace is delivered for a corresponding cardiac cycle;

adding the counted RVS events, the counted RVP events, and the counted LVP events to provide a sum;

determining a right ventricular cardiac event distribution and a left ventricular cardiac event distribution, wherein determining includes dividing an event count by the sum; and

displaying the right cardiac event distribution and the left ventricular cardiac distribution.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein displaying includes displaying a histogram with a plurality of histogram bins in which the same histogram bin includes a representation for at least a portion of the right ventricular cardiac event distribution and a representation for at least a portion of the left ventricular cardiac event distribution.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein displaying includes representing the right cardiac event distribution vertically adjacent within the same histogram bin to the left cardiac event distribution.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein displaying includes representing the right cardiac event distribution horizontally adjacent within the same histogram bin to the left cardiac event distribution.