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7599734 Electronic endoscope system  
An electronic endoscope system with high operability and high observing performance capable of driving properly and automatically the light-emitting elements without the size increase in system is...
7585279 Managing preload reserve by tracking the ventricular operating point with heart sounds  
A system and method for managing preload reserve and tracking the inotropic state of a patient's heart. The S1 heart sound is measured as a proxy for direct measurement of stroke volume. The S3...
7559900 Cardiac sensing and detection using subcutaneous ECG signals and heart sounds  
A method and device for detecting cardiac signals that includes a first plurality of electrodes that senses cardiac signals and delivers therapy, and a second plurality of electrodes that senses...
7517319 Method and system for analyzing cardiovascular sounds  
A method and system for analyzing sounds originating in at least a portion of an individual's cardiovascular system. N transducers, where N is an integer, are fixed on a surface of the individual...
7424321 Systems and methods for multi-axis cardiac vibration measurements  
A system to monitor heart sounds, such as to detect a worsening condition of heart failure decompensation. The system comprises a medical device that includes an implantable multi-axis heart sound...
7302290 Heart-activity monitoring with multi-axial audio detection  
Apparatus and associated methodology for monitoring correlatable anatomical electrical and sound signals, such as electrical and audio signals produced by human heart activity, including (a)...
7260429 Method and apparatus for phonocardiographic image acquisition and presentation  
A cardiac rhythm management system provides a phonocardiographic image indicative of a heart's mechanical events related to hemodynamic performance. The phonocardiographic image includes a stack of...
7248923 Dual-use sensor for rate responsive pacing and heart sound monitoring  
An implantable medical device includes a dual-use sensor such as a single accelerometer that senses an acceleration signal. A sensor processing circuit processes the acceleration signal to produce...
7190994 Method and system for generating a likelihood of cardiovascular disease, analyzing cardiovascular sound signals remotely from the location of cardiovascular sound signal acquisition, and determining time and phase information from cardiovascular sound signals  
A system, method, and computer executable code for generating a likelihood of cardiovascular disease from acquired cardiovascular sound signals is diesclosed, where the generated likelihood of...
7177685 Classifying tachyarrhythmia using time interval between ventricular depolarization and mitral valve closure  
A cardiac rhythm management system measures a time interval between a first fiducial marker indicative of a ventricular depolarization (e.g., a Q-wave, an R-wave, etc.) and a second fiducial marker...
7177672 Coding heart rate information  
The invention relates to an arrangement for coding heart rate information, comprising means ( 600 A, 600 B) for measuring a person's heart beat intervals and means for storing ( 648 ) the measured...
7115102 Electronic stethoscope system  
In a local stethoscope unit, acoustic auscultation sounds picked up by the stethoscope chest piece assembly of a local stethoscope unit are converted to analog electrical signals and then converted...
7110804 Combined electrical and audio anatomical signal sensor  
A combined audio and electrical anatomy-signal sensor which is designed to collect, essentially from a selected, common anatomical site, related audio and electrical anatomical signals, such as...
7079036 Method and apparatus for alarm volume control using pulse width modulation  
There is provided herein a first preferred arrangement of the instant invention, wherein an electronic patient monitor utilizes a computer CPU as an alarm signal generator, which CPU is preferably...
7074195 Real-time, sound-quality-competitive, single-site from plural-site, anatomical audio signal selection  
A method and apparatus for gathering high-quality anatomical audio signals. Practice of the invention, which is illustrated herein in the context of heart-produced signals, is based upon gathering,...
7010342 Method and apparatus for detecting and transmitting electrical and related audio signals from a single, common anatomical site  
A sensor designed to collect and convey single-site-related, body-produced electrical and acoustic signals, such as those related to heart activity, where electrical electrode and audio transducer...
7001338 System and method for diagnosing pathologic heart conditions  
A method of diagnosing pathologic heart conditions in which a time series of heart sounds is filtered and parsed into a sequence of individual heart cycles. A systolic interval as well as systolic...
6792308 Myocardial performance assessment  
Myocardial performance is assessed using a combination of electrical and mechanical criteria. More specifically, this assessment may be based on a QT interval based on electrogram (EGM) readings...
6643548 Implantable cardiac stimulation device for monitoring heart sounds to detect progression and regression of heart disease and method thereof  
A system and method for use in an implantable cardiac device permits the monitoring of progression and regression in heart disease, such as congestive heart failure. During a monitoring period, a...
6264614 System and method for generating and transferring medical data  
A computer site includes a data generating source. The source may include a device (e.g. a heart monitor) which may be manipulated by the patient to sense a biological function or condition such as...
6048322 Morphometric measurement tool  
A tool for measuring the oral cavity. The tool includes a first measuring member having a first leg portion and a dial portion with graduations provided thereon and a second measuring member having...
5935081 Long term monitoring of acceleration signals for optimization of pacing therapy  
An implantable monitor for collecting and storing for later telemetric readout physiologic data relating to cardiopulmonary performance. The monitor device includes an accelerometer and associated...
5807268 Disposable sensing device with contaneous conformance  
The present invention relates to a sensing device for capturing acoustic heart sounds. The sensing device has a diaphragm formed from a piezoelectric transducer material which generates excitation...
5730140 Sonification system using synthesized realistic body sounds modified by other medically-important variables for physiological monitoring  
A method and apparatus are described for converting physiological information into sound, suitable for such applications as anesthesiological, intensive-care or exercise monitoring. Complex,...
5159932 Myocardial ischemia detection system  
A method and apparatus for non invasively monitoring the motion of the patient's heart, to detect and display ischemia induced variations in the heart's motion which indicate coronary artery disease.
5035247 Sensor for non-invasive measurement of sound, pressure and vibration on the human body  
The invention relates to a sensor (1) for non-invasive measurement of sound, pressure and vibration on the human body which features a transducer in the form of a transducer membrane (23) to...
4905706 Method an apparatus for detection of heart disease  
A method and apparatus for detection of coronary artery disease. The apparatus records and analyzes that portion of the phonocardiogram lying between about 100 to 600 Hz. An electrocardiogram is...
4784153 Method of and apparatus for detecting cardiac rhythm disturbance  
A method for generating audio information to indicate the presence and nature of a cardiac rhythm disturbance is disclosed. More specifically, this method produces sounds which accompany atrial and...
4754762 EKG monitoring system  
An audio-visual EKG monitoring system that segments components of the patient's EKG waveform and synthesizes a plurality of audio driving signals, each representing peak values of the segmented...
4576178 Audio signal generator  
A system is disclosed that includes an audio signal generator to provide a distinguishable audible output that varies in accordance with a monitored input. The audio signal generator varies a...
3938507 Portable heart monitor  
A portable heart monitoring apparatus incorporating unique structural and functional features. Electrodes carried on the apparatus capture electrical signals representing the functioning of a heart...
RE28529 Heartbeat monitor with audio and visual outputs  
A pocket size, self-contained cardiac monitor for on-patient or central station monitoring by visible and/or audible signals related to the beat of a patient's heart, the monitor having the...
3861387 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA DETECTOR  
A selective circuit is provided for passing certain parts of, and information contained in, a complex input waveform containing both desired signals and undesired noise components. The circuit is...
3841315 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING HEARTBEAT RATE  
A wearable heart rate monitor for continuously monitoring the heart rate of an ambulatory wearer and alerting him whenever his heart rate rises above a preselected maximum level or falls below a...
3830227 HAND-HELD CARDIAC SOUND TONE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND METHOD  
A compact self-contained and completely portable hand-held unit employs electrical signals generated by the heart to produce variations in a normally constant or even sound tone produced by the...
3823708 TACHYCARDIA DETECTOR  
A selective circuit is provided for passing only selected waveforms of a desired polarity from a complex input waveform. The circuit is particularly adapted for use in a heart ventricular...
3760100 AUDIO ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MONITOR  
The audio monitor disclosed herein is an electronic device which converts e electrocardiogram into an amplitude and frequency modulated tone. This allows the listener to evaluate the shape of an...
3750644 CARDIAC PROGRAMMER FOR A CORONARY BLOOD PUMP  
A programmer system is disclosed for driving a complementary coronary blood pump disposed at a non-thoracic location in delayed synchronism with the electrocardiogram waveform of a subject....
3732868 DEVICE FOR THE AUDIBLE REPRODUCTION OF A CARDIOGRAM WITH SPEECH-LIKE SOUNDS  
A device for the audible reproduction of electrophysiological signals, which includes a serially connected sine wave generator and pulse shaper in which these signals are reproduced in the form of...
3650264 APPARATUS FOR ELECTRO-MEDICAL INVESTIGATION  
A medical diagnostic apparatus for producing an audible indication of the nature of electric signals produced in the human body by the action of the heart. An audio frequency carrier wave is...
3595219 HEART RATE SENSOR DEVICE  
A portable and relatively inconspicuous device for monitoring one's heart beat which is adapted for use by healthy persons engaged in an exercise program as well as by those who have suffered some...
3565058 MONITORING APPARATUS WITH AUDIO OUTPUT FREQUENCY RESPONSIVE TO EKG SIGNAL AMPLITUDE  
An electrocardiograph tone output signal is provided so that the audible frequency of the tone is representative of the amplitude of the EKG signal. The EKG signal is sensed by conventional...
3342176 Cardiac monitor  
3338234 Heart activity detector and display device  
3316897 Heart monitoring device with filter for suppressing the frequency of an ambient a.c.power source  
3229687 Electrocardio recording and reproducing system  
3215136 Electrocardiographic means  
3144018 Cardial conitor apparatus  
3052233 Cardiac monitor  
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