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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1979
Charles H Logan, Portland, OR (US);
Squibb Vitatek Inc., Hillsboro, OR (US);
Abstract
A respiration monitor for measuring the variations of the thorax impedance of a patient due to respiration is described. The monitor includes circuitry for suppressing the indication of unwanted signals caused by cardio-vascular activity of the patient. The circuitry receives trigger signals immediately following the QRS complex of the patient's ECG waveform. If a certain negative-going slope is detected in the thorax impedance waveform following the QRS complex, it is counted as a cardio-vascular artifact and not respiration activity. After a predetermined number of cardio-vascular artifact are detected and counted, the respiration monitor is disabled so that this cardio-vascular activity will not reset an apnea counter.