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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2017
West Affum Holdings Corp., Grand Cayman, KY;
Phillip D. Foshee, Jr., Woodinville, WA (US);
David P. Finch, Bothell, WA (US);
Laura M. Gustavson, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikolai Korsun, Irvine, CA (US);
Joseph L. Sullivan, Kirkland, WA (US);
WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS CORP., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator ('WCD') system may output a loud sound after detecting and validating a shockable cardiac arrhythmia. In such embodiments, however, the WCD system might not sound a loud alarm before validating the arrhythmia thoroughly, i.e. for a longer time, thus giving the arrhythmia a further chance to self-terminate. The WCD system may thus detect more robustly the cardiac arrhythmias that do not self-terminate quickly. Such arrhythmias that self-terminate quickly may occur from likely harmless events occurring multiple times in the daily life of the patient, such as the patient becoming 'winded' from climbing stairs. In embodiments the WCD system may notify the patient only discreetly, or even not at all. The lack of sounding such a loud alarm responsive to such events reduces the overall number of times in which the patient experiences unwanted attention by others, embarrassment, loss of privacy and dignity, and so on.