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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1988
Robert M Armington, West Peabody, MA (US);
Siemens Medical Electronics, Inc., Danvers, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of heartbeats in an ECG signal which may also include pacer artifacts, comprising analysis of the ECG signal for providing a heartbeat signal indicating detection of the occurrence of a heartbeat, analysis of the ECG signal for providing a pacer artifact signal indicating detection of the occurrence of a pacer artifact, analysis of the ECG signal in a manner independent from the first-mentioned analysis for determining if a portion of the ECG signal which follows detection of a pacer artifact has changes in its amplitude level which indicate the validity of the heartbeat indicating signal, and use of the result of the last-mentioned analysis to control the providing of the heartbeat indicating signal by the first-mentioned analysis.