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7374542 Noninvasive blood pressure determination method and apparatus  
The method and the apparatus serve for non-invasively determining the blood pressure of a patient. An electrical cardiac potential measurement signal and a pulse-pressure-wave measurement signal...
7367950 Distributed apparatus and method for non-invasive measurement of functional state and adaptive response  
An apparatus and method for distributed, non-invasive assessment of the functional state and state of adaptive response of a subject under test. The functional state tests may include heart rate...
7369889 Apparatus for analyzing cardiac events  
An apparatus for detecting cardiac events in electrograms has a feature extraction unit that derives features of the cardiac events for discriminating among different types of cardiac events. A...
7363073 Method and apparatus for displaying vital sign data  
An electroencephalogram waveform is displayed in a first display area in a real time manner such that a direction indicating lapse of time is oriented horizontally. A second display area is...
7361188 Portable cardiac monitor  
A system and method for obtaining ECG signals from an ambulatory patient are disclosed herein. The system is configured to be inexpensive, small, and robust for outpatient monitoring. The system is...
7359749 Device for analysis of a signal, in particular a physiological signal such as an ECG signal  
A device for analyzing a physiological signal, such as an electrocardiogram or electrogram, that was previously collected, filtered, sampled and digitized. The device memorizes the digitized signal...
7343198 System, software, and method for detection of sleep-disordered breathing using an electrocardiogram  
A system to form and store an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal derived from a cardiac electrical signal that includes an apparatus having a pair of the electrodes to connect to a patient to detect...
7343197 Multi-scale analysis and representation of physiological and health data  
System comprised of a medical device and method for analyzing physiological and health data and representing the most significant parameters at different levels of detail which are understandable...
7340294 Impedance measurement apparatus for assessment of biomedical electrode interface quality  
Apparatus for assessing the electrical properties of patient-electrode interfaces has a carrier signal source injecting two carrier signals comprising an AC signal with a DC offset to the...
7336998 External discrimination between pace pulses at different heart locations  
This document discusses, among other things, an external device capable of independently distinguishing between pace pulses delivered by an implantable cardiac rhythm management device to different...
7336997 Heart treatment equipment and heart treatment method  
Heart treatment equipment and a heart treatment method directed to prevention of a fatal arrhythmia by detecting a physical exercise or a mental stress by using a sensor and thereafter controlling...
RE40116 Mobile digital communication computing device including heart rate monitor  
A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with a number of sensors and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate a...
7333848 Method and system for evaluating vertebrobasilar disease  
A method and system are disclosed for evaluating symptomatic VBD which uses quantitative hemodynamic assessment in order to identify patients at high risk for stroke and provide appropriate...
7330757 Method for discriminating between ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias  
The present invention is directed toward a detection architecture for use in implantable cardiac rhythm devices. The detection architecture of the present invention provides methods and devices for...
7330750 Estimation of cardiac death risk  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for predicting a sudden heart abnormality for an individual patient. In order to provide a prediction mechanism that is suitable for acute care,...
7330751 Heartbeat detection device  
A heartbeat detection device includes a pair of electrode units, a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit is electrically connected to the paired electrode units each by...
7330752 Procedure for detection of stress by segmentation and analyzing a heart beat signal  
A procedure for the detection of stress state is disclosed, wherein ambulatory heart beat signal is measured. In the first phase segments are defined from heart beat signal with a chosen rule for...
7328061 Method and apparatus for perioperative assessment of cardiovascular risk  
A method and apparatus for providing real-time support in interpreting a patient's ECG in order to assess the probability of perioperative cardiovascular risk associated with performing a...
7321837 Synchronization and calibration of clocks for a medical device and calibrated clock  
Apparatus and method support the synchronization and calibration of a plurality of clocks in a medical device system that may provide treatment to a patient with a nervous system disorder. The...
7317941 Time syncrhonization of data  
A device external to an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided with an accurate reference clock. The programmer receives time data from the IMD and compares that data to time data from the...
7310551 Diagnostic gauge for cardiac health analysis  
A diagnostic gauge for cardiac health is described. Multiple parameters pertaining to a patent's cardiac health are distilled to a single diagnostic vector having an angle and a magnitude. The...
7310550 Electrocardiograph and display method for electrocardiograph  
A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and method is disclosed. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform, an electrocardiograph ( 1 ) is held in position by a grip including a...
7310549 Dive computer with heart rate monitor  
A dive computer that includes heart rate monitoring capability is provided. The heart rate monitoring is accomplished by a belt that fits around the diver's chest, and the information is wirelessly...
7308309 Diagnosing cardiac health utilizing parameter trend analysis  
Diagnosing a patient's cardiac health through the use of parameter change analysis involves a system that includes an implantable cardiac device to sense a parameter related to a patient's heart....
7305262 Apparatus and method for acquiring oximetry and electrocardiogram signals  
A method and apparatus for acquiring pulse oximetry and electrocardiogram signals from an appendage of a patient. The apparatus can include a substrate that can be attached to the appendage of the...
7300406 Medical examination apparatus  
An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument...
7299085 Remote monitoring of implanted medical device and surface ECG signals  
An integrated device for remote monitoring of implanted medical devices and surface ECG information includes components for collection of information from an implanted medical device, collection of...
7299086 Wireless ECG in implantable devices  
An implantable medical device such as an implantable pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator includes a programmable sensing circuit providing for sensing of a signal approximating a...
7295871 ECG signal processor and method  
Chest compressions are measured and prompted to facilitate the effective administration of CPR. A displacement detector determines a displacement indicative signal indicative of the displacement of...
7291111 Apparatus and method for non-invasive diagnosing of coronary artery disease  
A non-invasive diagnostic tool and method for detecting an obstruction in a coronary artery, the diagnostic tool including a signal processor adapted to receive signals corresponding to a heart...
7288070 Method and apparatus for determining extreme blood pressure values  
In a method and apparatus for measuring extreme blood pressure values during a single non-invasive blood measurement, the time intervals between sequential heartbeats are measured for a series of...
7286866 Method, system and computer product for cardiac interventional procedure planning  
A method of creating 3D models to be used for cardiac interventional procedure planning. Acquisition data is obtained from a medical imaging system and cardiac image data is created in response to...
7286874 Ensemble averaging for evoked responses  
Exemplary methods and devices for analyzing intracardiac electrocardiograms (IEGMs) using ensemble averaging and/or an ensemble average. Various methods and/or devices are suitable for use with...
7283863 Method and apparatus for identifying cardiac and non-cardiac oversensing using intracardiac electrograms  
A method and apparatus for automatically identifying various types of cardiac and non-cardiac oversensing is provided. EGM data, including time intervals between sensed and paced events and signal...
7283865 Device and method for determining a cardiac condition using a complex signal formed from a detected cardiac signal  
In a device and a method for determining a cardiac condition from a detected cardiac signal, an input signal is formed from the detected cardiac signal and supplied to an analysis unit. The...
7283870 Apparatus and method for obtaining cardiac data  
An apparatus and method for obtaining information, such as heart rate or the presence of atrial fibrillation, from electrodes applied to the feet of a subject. A scale having electrodes may be used...
7280864 Method and apparatus for automated selection of correct image for quantitative analysis  
A method for selecting images for coronary analysis using time stamps to correlate cardiovascular images to corresponding physiological or hemodynamic monitoring, e.g., ECG, data. The method uses...
7280861 Diagnosis and classification of disease and disability using low frequency magnetic field designed pulses (Cnps)  
The invention is directed to the use of magnetic field designed pulses for the diagnoses and classification of severity of disease states and disability in humans and animals.
7277752 System for cardiac resuscitation  
A system and method for monitoring and controlling the therapy of a cardiac rhythm abnormality victim at a remote site by proving immediate access to a medical professional at a central station....
7277754 Method and system for removing pacing artifacts from subcutaneous electrocardiograms  
An implantable cardiac rhythm management device is configured to remove pacing artifacts from recorded electrograms by a subtraction method. A template waveform representing a recorded pace without...
7277745 Implantable myocardial ischemia detection, indication and action technology  
One embodiment enables detection of MI/I and emerging infarction in an implantable system. A plurality of devices may be used to gather and interpret data from within the heart, from the heart...
7277746 Method and apparatus for analyzing heart rate variability  
A user-friendly and statistic based heart rate variability analytical method includes the following steps of capturing an electrocardiogram signal of a person, performing analog-to-digital...
7274959 System and method for detecting cardiac ischemia using an implantable medical device  
A technique is provided for detecting episodes of cardiac ischemia based on an examination of post-T-wave signal segments. Since cardiac ischemia is often a precursor to acute myocardial infarction...
7272431 Remote-sensing method and device  
Apparatus and methods for performing remote detection of physiological activity are described. One aspect of the invention involves obtaining information concerning respiration and heart function....
7272432 Method and apparatus for analyzing a physiological waveform  
A method and apparatus for analyzing a physiological waveform. The apparatus comprising an input terminal for connection to a patient to acquire the physiological waveform from a patient, an...
7269458 Cardiopulmonary functional status assessment via heart rate response detection by implantable cardiac device  
An implantable cardiac device is configured and programmed to assess a patient's cardiopulmonary function by evaluating the patient's heart rate response. Such evaluation may be performed by...
7266410 Method and system for the prediction of cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, and other diseased condition of the heart associated with elevated sympathetic neural discharges  
Methods and systems are provided for determining an increased likelihood of the occurrence of a cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, congestive heart failure and other diseased conditions of...
7266409 Method and apparatus for determining oversensing in a medical device  
A method and apparatus for determining oversensing in an implantable medical device that includes sensing a first cardiac signal and detecting cardiac events via a first electrode configuration,...
7261696 Method and apparatus for measuring cardiac output via an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support circuit  
A method and apparatus for determining cardiac output in conjunction with flow through an extracorporeal circuit, wherein flow through an arterial line of the extracorporeal circuit is temporarily...
7263399 Apparatus and methods for analysis of cardiac device stored episodes containing sensed signals and waveforms  
Apparatus and methods for analyzing implantable medical device (IMD) data and to distinguish specific morphologies for review. EGM waveforms of a cardiac cycle can be grouped according to waveform...