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Automated method for diagnosing and monitoring the outcomes of atrial fibrillation

  • US 6,704,595 B2
  • Filed: 08/13/2001
  • Issued: 03/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated method for diagnosing and monitoring an outcome of atrial fibrillation, comprising:

  • retrieving a plurality of monitoring sets from a database with each monitoring set comprising recorded measures relating to patient information recorded on a substantially continuous basis;

    diagnosing atrial fibrillation;

    determining a patient status change in response to the atrial fibrillation diagnosis for an absence, an onset, a progression, a regression, and a status quo of atrial fibrillation by comparing at least one of the recorded measures from each of the monitoring sets to at least one other of the recorded measures with both recorded measures relating to the same type of patient information; and

    testing the recorded measure comparison against an indicator threshold corresponding to the same type of patient information as the recorded measures which were compared to form the atrial fibrillation pathophysiological outcome, the indicator threshold corresponding to a quantifiable physiological measure of a pathophysiology resulting from atrial fibrillation.

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