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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Apn Health, Llc, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Donald Brodnick, Cedarburg, WI (US);
APN Health, LLC, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
An automatic method for detecting heartbeats of a patient from two or more selected ECG signals, the method comprising: (a) determining a velocity for each of the selected signals; (b) summing together absolute values of each of the velocities; (c) comparing the sum with a threshold T having a value about one-half of an expected maximum value of the sum; and (d) if the sum is greater than the threshold T and if elapsed time since an immediately-previous heartbeat detection is greater than a preset refractory period t, a heartbeat has been detected at a time tof the velocity determinations. The method also further includes steps by which the detected heartbeats are categorized based on the velocities at the time of detection.