Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Hewlett-packard Company

Rainer Schluess

Bernd Wilm

Alejo Costa Ribalta

Sophia Huai Zhou

Nikolai Marinow

Philipp Heusel

An ECG monitoring system analyzes ECG signals of leads associated with different anatomical locations of the body for evidence of ST elevation in the lead signals. The ST elevation and depression measurements of the leads are plotted in a graphical display organized in relation to the anatomical points which are the sources of the lead signals. The locations of the plotted measurements in the anatomically-oriented display indicate the identity of a specific coronary artery or branch as a possible culprit coronary artery for an acute ischemic event, as well as the possible severity of the event from the magnitudes of the plotted signals. A clinician can identify a suspect culprit coronary artery from a quick glance at the graphical display.

Automated identification of culprit coronary artery using anatomically oriented ECG data display

A method of medical monitoring using data collected by a number of sensors, wherein the position of the sensors form a predefined arrangement and collected data depend on the position of the sensor on the patient. The method includes displaying data using a number of multiaxis diagrams where the position of the axes is related to the position of the sensors in the predefined arrangement, and on each axis data from its related sensor is displayed. Further, a multiaxis diagram is used, wherein each axis represents a particular dimension of data and spatial information is displayed in addition to the pure values. With this additional information a two- or three-dimensional representation and localization of data is provided. The technique allows a more effective recognition of monitored data and enables physicians to perform a fast pattern recognition to recognize and evaluate a patient's situation in a quicker and more effective way.

Method of medical monitoring

Disclosed is the selecting of a limit value, such as an alarm limit, from a range of limit values dependent on a starting value. The selected limit value is applicable e.g. in a patient monitoring system for monitoring a physiological parameter for providing a signal when a monitored value of the physiological parameter exceeds the selected limit value. According to the invention, the range of limit values comprises a functional range with a functional relationship of the limit values to the starting values, and at least one non-functional range with no functional relationship of the limit values to the starting values.

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Bondorf, Germany

Rainer Schluess