Inovise Medical, Inc.

Robert A Warner

Peter T Bauer

Peter M Galen

Patricia A Arand

Richard C Myers

Alan V Andresen

Damon J Coffman

Ron H S Selvester

A method for gathering, creating and utilizing signal-processed ECG and acoustic signals for assessing, via presenting a highly intuitive, multi-component, common-time-base, real-time output display of selected (1) timing, (2) relative timing, and (3) other significant heart-behavioral elements relevant to such an assessment, a pacemaker patient's hemodynamic condition. The method offers an important option and capability for automatic, and/or manual, medical-treatment and/or pacemaker-control feedback, in real time, to improve a pacemaker patient's hemodynamic status, with such a patient's resulting hemodynamic-behavioral/status changes caused by such feedback being viewable immediately in the invention's produced output display.

Pacemaker-patient hemodynamic assessment/adjustment methodology

A method and a system for monitoring and characterizing a person's heart condition for various medically related purposes. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring a selected person's acoustic heart signature, (b) acquiring, substantially simultaneously, that same person's electrical heart signature, (c) choosing elements of determined interest from these two acquired signatures and selectively processing and inter- and/or cross-relating such elements, and (d) employing the results of the relating step to create a heart-condition fingerprint useful in the characterization of that person's heart condition. From a systemic point of view, that system includes (a) acoustic and electrical data-gathering devices employable to collect acoustic and electrical data from a person, and (b) processing structure operatively connected to these devices, operable to process and inter- and/or cross-relate data gathered by the devices for the purpose of generating a reportable heart-condition fingerprint of a person from whom such data has been collected.

Method and system relating to monitoring and characterizing heart condition

A method for differentiating acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from other ECG abnormalities. The method is performed by modeling selected ECG confounders that tend to obscure AMI evidence in the ECG waveform, and by purging a subject's ECG waveform of the effect(s) of these confounders through linking selected confounder models with an appropriate, computer-implementable purge algorithm.

Differentiating acute myocardial infarction from other ECG abnormalities

A method and system for presenting time-based, comparative, patient-specific ECG data in various presentation formats, wherein color-coding is employed as a visual device to communicate vividly different, selected &ldquo;changed&rdquo; characteristics in that patient's current ECG-detected status.

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Tigard, OR, United States of America

Robert A Warner