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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard A Katz, East Lyme, CT (US);
Shalabh Chandra, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Richard A Grimm, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
James D Thomas, Beachwood, OH (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; A61B / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128713 ; 128695 ; 607-6 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for predicting the efficacy of cardioversion as a dality for reverting a patient with atrial fibrillation to normal sinus rhythm. Blood flow through the patient's atrium is measured, converted and processed using nonlinear or chaotic processing to obtain a differential radius signal. The number of excursions of the differential radius beyond a threshold value indicates whether cardioversion will be successful.