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7260427 Method and apparatus for determining the coronary sinus vein branch accessed by a coronary sinus lead  
Systems and methods for determining the coronary sinus vein branch location of a left ventricle electrode are disclosed. The systems and methods involve detecting the occurrence of electrical...
7260428 Shield arrangement for ECG lead wires  
A grounding arrangement in a system using the same connector for 5- and 12-lead connection in ECG-measurement. If 5-lead configuration is used, the connector elements of the 12-lead connection are...
7257438 Patient-worn medical monitoring device  
A medical monitor includes a lanyard and an electronic package supported in the manner of a pendant. The lanyard includes integral electrodes or other sensors for making physiological measurements,...
7245961 ECG electrode characterization and compensation  
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with electrocardiogram electrode characterization and compensation are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a...
7245960 System, method, program, and medium for measuring heart rate  
A heart-rate measuring apparatus is provided a database, acquisition unit, production unit, search unit, cross-correlation processing unit, and calculation unit. In the database, one or more sets...
7242978 Method and apparatus for generating a template for arrhythmia detection and electrogram morphology classification  
An implantable medical device and associated method for automatically generating morphology templates during fast cardiac rhythms, confirming a provisional template as a confirmed template, and...
7236818 Handheld interpreting electrocardiograph  
A hand-held electrocardiograph system with automatic analysis and interpretation is provided. The electrocardiograph includes an acquisition element adapted to be coupled to a patient through a set...
7236819 Separation of a subcutaneous cardiac signal from a plurality of composite signals  
A cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation method and systems provide monitoring, defibrillation and/or pacing therapies, including systems detecting and/or treating cardiac arrhythmia. A system...
7235050 Implantable device for processing neurological signals  
An implantable device comprising a sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is adapted to rectify biological/neurological signals in the form of sensed electrical signals from body tissue adjacent to...
7233821 Method and apparatus for evaluating ventricular performance during isovolumic contraction  
A method of evaluating ventricular performance of a heart employing sensors to measure a ventricular dimension signal and deriving indices of ventricular performance therefrom. Premature Shortening...
7231244 Method and arrangement for predicting perioperative myocardial ischemia  
A method and an arrangement for predicting perioperative myocardial ischemia. Heart rate measurements are carried out for example at night- and day-time before the operation to obtain heart rate...
7228167 Method and apparatus for detecting vagus nerve stimulation  
A method and apparatus for monitoring the application of a vagus nerve stimulation signal includes a detection circuit having an amplifier, a filter, and a signal prolongation circuit. The signal...
7228173 Cardiac tachyarrhythmia therapy selection based on patient response information  
Cardiac treatment methods and devices providing templates representative of past tachyarrythmia events, each template associated with a therapy. A cardiac waveform is detected, and if it...
7226418 Automatic blood pressure measuring instrument and method thereof  
An automatic blood pressure measuring instrument for measuring and displaying a blood pressure of a subject in a non-invasive manner includes a pressure sensor for obtaining a pulse wave signal...
7221975 Signal filtering using orthogonal polynomials and removal of edge effects  
A method and device for filtering an input signal containing wanted signal components and unwanted signal components, wherein the signal is modeled as a set of polynomials. Polynomials from the set...
7215991 Wireless medical diagnosis and monitoring equipment  
A medical diagnosis and monitoring system having at least one sensor for detecting an electrical, physical, chemical, or biological property of a patient such as, but not limited to, EEG- and...
7215993 Cardiac rhythm management systems and methods for detecting or validating cardiac beats in the presence of noise  
This document describes systems, devices, and methods for detecting or validating cardiac beats, such as in the presence of myopotential or other noise. In one example, an amplitude peak, which is...
7212849 Methods and apparatuses for arrhythmia detection and classification using wireless ECG  
A CRM system enhances intracardiac electrogram-based arrhythmia detection using a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG), which is a signal sensed with implantable electrodes and approximating a surface...
7206631 Sleepiness level detection device  
A sleepiness level detection device detects a heartbeat signal when a time equal to or longer than T 1 and equal to or shorter than T 2 has elapsed since the start of driving. The heartbeat...
7206630 Electrode patch and wireless physiological measurement system and method  
A wireless electrode patch and system for measuring the physiological condition of a subject, more particularly to an electrode patch for ECG monitoring, and a method of sensing, analyzing and/or...
7197357 Wireless ECG system  
A cardiac monitoring system and, more particularly, a wireless electrocardiograph (ECG) system. The present invention detects electrical signals from a patient's heart and transmits the signals...
7197351 Portable electrocardiograph  
A portable electrocardiograph and method of use are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a portable electrocardiograph is provided which includes: a rectangular housing...
7192401 Method for monitoring accumulated body fatigue for determining recovery during exercise or activity  
The invention relates to a method for determining accumulated body fatigue index (BFI), wherein one or more parameters from the measurement of one or more signals are obtained sequentially as input...
7194298 Method and apparatus for trend detection in an electrocardiogram monitoring signal  
The present invention can be used in conjunction with a wearable digital wireless ECG monitoring system. A full ECG curve is received by a central module. The central module is worn on the belt...
7191004 Capture verification using an evoked response reference  
A method and system for verifying capture in the heart involves the use of pacing artifact templates. One or more pacing artifact templates characterizing a post pace artifact signal associated...
7187964 Cardiac catheter imaging system  
A device for measuring parameters of human tissue includes a multielectrode catheter for taking multiple measurements of the electrical characteristics of the human tissue, a concentric tube...
7187966 Method and apparatus for displaying alternans data  
Method and apparatus for displaying alternans data of an electrocardiogram signal having a plurality of odd beats and a plurality of even beats. The method can include calculating an odd median...
7184817 System and method for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms and its use for heart failure therapy decision making and disease monitoring  
An ICD processing system for acquiring breathing pattern signals from intracardiac electrograms obtained from implantable cardiac devices. The system may include both an implantable ICD device and...
7184815 System and method for selection of morphology templates  
A template selection method involves providing a plurality of templates representing a type of cardiac event. One or more characteristics of each template are evaluated. The evaluations are...
7183930 Occupant heartbeat detection and monitoring system  
The disclosed invention uses two sensors to capture the heartbeat and environmental noises of an occupant of a vehicle or hospital bed. One of the sensors is placed on a seat or bed frame adjacent...
7184816 Cardiac stimulating and detecting device, system and method for identifying far field signals  
In an implantable heart stimulating device, system and method, a control circuit has first and second circuits for sensing and pacing. The first circuit can be connected to a first electrode member...
7184833 Multiple pacing output channels  
An implantable medical device includes two or more pacing output channels coupled to a single unipolar electrode or bipolar electrode pair. The implantable medical device can control each pacing...
7181282 Implantable cardiac device with PVC density monitoring, and therapy control and method  
An implantable cardiac device provides a learned premature ventricular contraction density function responsive to detected premature ventricular contractions. A current premature ventricular...
7181268 Ischemia detection  
Techniques for detection and treatment of myocardial ischemia are described that monitor both the electrical and dynamic mechanical activity of the heart to detect and verify the occurrence of...
7174204 Methods for quantifying the morphology and amplitude of cardiac action potential alternans  
Methods and apparatus for determining T-wave alternan signatures (i.e., morphology and polarity) derived from a physiologic signal representative of a subject's heart activity; assessing changes in...
7171258 Method and apparatus for trending a physiological cardiac parameter  
The present invention relates to an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or pacemaker whose standard circuitry is used to trend a physiological cardiac parameter using intra-cardiac impedance...
7171269 Method of analysis of medical signals  
A method of analysis of medical signals which uses wavelet transform analysis to decompose cardiac signals. Apparatus for carrying out the method, and cardiac apparatus adapted to employ the method...
7171259 Method and device for measuring heart rate, and method for manufacturing the device  
A heart rate measuring device is attached around a user's hand, the device having an inner surface, which is in contact with the skin on the hand to which it is attached, and an outer surface,...
7167743 Collecting activity information to evaluate therapy  
A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. The medical device or another device may periodically determine an activity level of the patient, and associate each determined activity level with...
7162304 System for measuring cardiac rhythm parameters for assessment of spinal cord stimulation  
A neuro-stimulation system and method are provided which can monitor EKG signals and provide electrical stimulation. The system comprises a stimulation lead having at least one stimulating...
7160253 Method and device for measuring stress  
The invention relates to a method and an electronic device for implementing the method for measuring mental load. The electronic device generates at least two different cognitively loading tasks...
7154071 Device for transmitting an electric signal detected by contact with the skin surface  
A device for transmitting electric signals detected by contact with the skin surface to an evaluating unit. The device has a stack of at least two layers of clothing ( 3, 7 ) with an electric path...
7151957 Method and device for analyzing a periodic or semi-periodic signal  
A device for reducing noise in signals having successive substantially repetitive portions, comprising: an iterative averager operative to superimpose and average said substantially repetitive...
7147600 System and method for determining a reference baseline of patient information  
A system for determining a reference baseline of patient information for automated remote patient care is presented. A medical device regularly records and stores measures sets including individual...
7149568 Exercise load intensity evaluation device and exercise equipment  
An exercise load intensity evaluation device includes a pulse wave detection section which is attached to a subject during exercise and noninvasively detects a peripheral pulse wave. An ejection...
7149571 Portable biological data measuring apparatus  
To provide a portable biological data measuring apparatus capable of measuring, storing and displaying biological data of a human being, in particular. The apparatus includes a GND electrode ( 12...
7149570 Alarm activated acoustic measuring signals for patient monitoring  
A system and a method for monitoring a physiological parameter of a patient providing a measurement-modulated acoustic signal ( 7 ) after/when a measurement value of the monitored physiological...
7149563 Basket catheter with multiple location sensors  
An improved basket catheter is provided that is particularly useful for mapping the heart. The catheter comprises an elongated catheter body having proximal and distal ends and at least one lumen...
7146206 Detection of cardiac arrhythmia using mathematical representation of standard ΔRR probability density histograms  
A method and a system for detecting cardiac arrhythmias that includes detecting RR intervals of the patient wherein each RR interval is an interval between two heart beats, and simulating standard...
7141017 Variable EGM filtering and fixation prediction  
An IMD includes a variable sense amplifier that can be adjusted to counteract the variability created in EGM's due to lead maturation. The effects of lead maturation are either predictively assumed...