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Method and apparatus for recording electrocardiogram information

Patent 5410473 Issued on April 25, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject December 16, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 991873 filed on 12/16/1992

US Classes:

600/523, Signal display or recording128/920COMPUTER ASSISTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS

Examiners

Primary: Hayes, Gail O.
Assistant: Shingala, Gita D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 1-170440A JP. 05/13/1989
  • 2-63008 JP. 12/13/1990
  • 2214309 GB. 08/13/1989

International Classes

G06F 015/42
A61B 005/04

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-01-07 JP

Abstract

A method and apparatus for recording electrocardiogram information, in which ST deviation can readily be visualized and ischemia can be diagnosed with ease at the same time. Compressed recorded waveforms of electrocardiogram waveforms are partitioned and recorded as compressed waveforms of a plurality of lines in a first recording area of a recording paper for recording electrocardiogram information. A predetermined number of lines of the recorded compressed electrocardiogram waveforms in the first recording area are selected in a second recording area neighboring the first recording area, the selected waveforms are superimposed in synchronism with a predetermined characteristic point of the selected waveforms, and the waveforms are recorded while changing location in the area neighboring the predetermined lines of the first recording area. An HR graph and an ST-trend graph of the electrocardiogram waveforms recorded in the first recording area are recorded in recording lines approximately perpendicular to the recording lines of the compressed electrocardiogram waveforms from a position of a recording starting line of the compressed electrocardiogram waveforms of the first recording area.

Other References

  • Analysis of Ambulatory ECG By Superimposed Waveforms and (ECG) Wave Trendgram, Japan Soc. ME & BE (May, 1989), by M. Kaneko et al., p. 286 (including an English translation)
  • Development and Application of the Evaluation Method of Ischemic ECG Change by the Superimposing Processing, J. Electrocardiology, vol. 11, No. 4, 1991, by Masatoshi Hari, pp. 396-40
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