Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegerate Gmbh & Co Ingenieurburo Berlin

Ingo Weiss

A cardioelectric apparatus for the early detection of a tachycardia of the heart is provided. The cardioelectric apparatus of the current invention, comprising: 1) measurement means for sensing measurement values for the heart rate and the action potential duration, the measurement means having at least one output for the output of measurement value pairs of mutually associated measurement values for the heart rate and the action potential duration; 2) measurement value processing means for receiving the measurement value pairs, the measurement value processing means connected to the output of the measurement means and which are adapted to derive from the measurement value pairs time-variant parameters (&tgr; , g) which describe the heart; 3) a memory in which comparative values characterizing a tachycardia risk can be stored; and 4) an evaluation unit connected to the measurement value processing means for receiving the parameters (&tgr; , g) derived from the measurement value pairs and further connected to the memory and which is adapted to compare the derived parameters (&tgr; , g) to comparative values stored in the memory and to output a tachycardia risk signal if the comparison of the derived parameters (&tgr; , g) with the comparative values shows that the derived parameters (&tgr; , g) are in the tachycardia risk range.

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Ingo Weiss