System and method for displaying a histogram of cardiac events

• US 8,725,242 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Stahmann, Jeffrey E., Wentkowski, Rene H., Kalgren, James, Lindh, Par
• Primary Examiner(s): Schaetzle, Kennedy
• Application Number:
  US13/247,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20120016250A1
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 method implemented using processing circuitry executing stored executable instructions, the method comprising:

acquiring cardiac event data occurring at two or more cardiac sites; and

displaying the cardiac event data in a histogram as two or more statistical distributions for the two or more cardiac sites, wherein the histogram includes a right ventricular cardiac event distribution and a left ventricular cardiac event distribution.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the cardiac event data in the histogram comprises providing the right ventricular cardiac event distribution adjacent to the left ventricular cardiac event distribution in each of the histogram bins.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the right ventricular cardiac event distribution and the left ventricular cardiac event distribution, wherein determining the right ventricular cardiac event distribution and the left ventricular cardiac event distribution includes dividing an event count in bin by a denominator, wherein the denominator is the sum of a total right ventricular sense (RVS) count, a total right ventricular pace (RVP) count, and a total left ventricular pace (LVP) count, and the LVP count includes only left ventricular pacing events in which no right ventricular pace is delivered for a corresponding cardiac cycle.

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

acquiring cardiac event data for both paced and sensed cardiac events, wherein acquiring cardiac event data includes acquiring left ventricle cardiac event data and acquiring right ventricle cardiac event data and

displaying the cardiac event data, including displaying a left ventricular cardiac event distribution adjacent to a right ventricular cardiac event distribution in the histogram, wherein the histogram has a plurality of histogram bins, and the left ventricular cardiac event distribution includes both paced and sensed cardiac event distributions, and the right ventricular cardiac event distribution includes both paced and sensed cardiac event distributions.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising providing an atrial event distribution in a second histogram.

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

acquiring cardiac event data for two or more cardiac sites; and

displaying the cardiac event data in a histogram as two or more statistical distributions for the two or more sites, the histogram including a number of histogram bins, and for each of at least one of the histogram bins, the histogram bin including a representation of a distribution for a first cardiac site and a representation of a distribution for a second cardiac site.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first and second cardiac sites include contralateral chamber sites.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first and second cardiac sites include sites for a single cardiac chamber.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for at two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a left ventricular site and a right ventricular site.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a first left ventricular site and a second left ventricular site.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a first right ventricular site and a second right ventricular site.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a left atrial site and a right atrial site.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a first left atrial site and a second left atrial site.

14. The method of claim 6, wherein acquiring cardiac event data for two or more sites includes acquiring cardiac event data for a first right atrial site and a second right atrial site.

15. The method of claim 6, further comprising storing cardiac event data for the two or more cardiac sites that occur during at least one specified time period, wherein storing the cardiac event data includes storing the cardiac event data in a memory, and acquiring the cardiac event data includes accessing the memory to acquire the stored data and displaying the data includes displaying at least one histogram using the stored data to provide a representation of two or more statistical distributions for the cardiac events at the two or more cardiac sites for each specified time period.

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

acquiring cardiac event data for two or more cardiac sites in a single cardiac chamber; and

displaying the cardiac event data in a histogram as two or more statistical distributions for the two or more sites, the histogram including a number of histogram bins, and for each of at least one of the histogram bins, the histogram bin including a representation of a distribution for a first cardiac site in the cardiac chamber and a representation of a distribution for a second cardiac site in the cardiac chamber.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the single cardiac chamber includes a left ventricle.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the two or more cardiac sites include four cardiac sites in the left ventricle.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the two or more statistical distributions include paced and sensed cardiac event distributions.

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

acquiring cardiac event data for a left ventricle from four cardiac sites in the left ventricle; and

displaying the cardiac event data in a histogram as statistical distributions for the four sites in the left ventricle, the histogram including a number of histogram bins, and for each of at least one of the histogram bins, the histogram bin including a representation of a distribution for a first of the four cardiac sites in the left ventricle, a representation of a distribution for a second of the four cardiac sites in the left ventricle, a representation for a third of the four cardiac sites in the left ventricle, and a representation for a fourth of the four cardiac sites in the left ventricle.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the statistical distributions include paced and sensed cardiac event distributions, and displaying the cardiac event data in the histogram as statistical distributions for the four sites in the left ventricle includes displaying paced and sensed cardiac event distributions.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the representation for at least a portion of the statistical distribution of the cardiac event for a first of the four cardiac sites is generally horizontally adjacent to the representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a second of the four cardiac sites within the at least one of the histogram bins.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the representation for at least a portion of the statistical distribution of the cardiac event for a first of the four cardiac sites is generally vertically adjacent to the representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a second of the four cardiac sites within the at least one of the histogram bins.