摘要:
Exemplary medical devices and systems for providing remote support relating to implantable medical devices (IMDS) are described. One method generates a graphical user-interface (GUI) relating to an IMD on a local medical device configured to interrogate the IMD. The method also recreates the GUI on a remote medical device effective that a cursor of the GUI can be manipulated from both the local medical device and the remote medical device while selection of IMD parameter values is available only at the local medical device.
摘要:
A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by the internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, the emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes. In another example, the emulation is performed using a technique that selectively amplifies or attenuates portions of a single cardiac signal sensed using a single pair of electrodes. The surface EKG emulation may be performed by the implanted device itself or by an external device, such as a programmer, based on cardiac signals transmitted thereto. The external device then displays the emulated surface EKG along with an intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) and set of event markers. Alternatively, the external device displays an entire set of emulated EKGs that had been generated based on the same patient input data but using different emulation techniques. The emulated EKGs are displayed along with an actual surface EKG for the patient so that a physician may easily identify the optimal emulation technique for that patient.
摘要:
Cardiac electrical activity includes intrinsic signals as well as paced or stimulated signals. Waveforms of cardiac electrical activity may be detected by a variety of systems, including surface ECG systems and various implantable cardiac devices including implantable cardiac stimulation devices. Intrinsic cardiac signals and various cardiac conditions influence these waveforms in ways that can be identified using various detection criteria, and from which cardiac markers may be generated. Musical notations are linked to these cardiac markers as appropriate, and are sounded as a function of time to generate musical sound which is indicative of the patient's cardiac function.