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US 10,769,966 B2Granted
Apparatus and method of simulating cardiac phenomena
OwnerNadew Sebroinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for simulating electrocardial phenomena and related pathologies. A physical replica of a heart is provided with series of light emitters representing actual and conceptual electrocardial pathways, and controls therefor and output thereof, allowing the demonstration and graphical representation of electrocardial phenomena.
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An apparatus for simulating different activities of a heart, the apparatus comprising:
- a microcontroller comprising a memory for storing data, the data comprising physiological cardiac events, cardiac axes, cardiac pathologies, cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to physiological cardiac events, and cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to cardiac pathologies;
- a first plurality of nodes connected along a first electrical pathway corresponding to an actual electrical network of a living heart;
- a second plurality of nodes connected along a second electrical pathway corresponding to a conceptual electrical phenomenon of a living heart;
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- a first plurality of light emitters disposed along the first electrical pathway, the first plurality of light emitters demonstrating at least one of the physiological cardiac events, cardiac axes, cardiac pathologies, cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to physiological cardiac events, and cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to cardiac pathologies, based on a user input.
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A method of simulating different activities of a heart, the method comprising:
- storing, in a memory of a microcontroller, data comprising physiological cardiac events, cardiac axes, cardiac pathologies, cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to physiological cardiac events, and cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to cardiac pathologies;
- providing a transparent shell having a shape replicating a human heart, the transparent shell containing a first plurality of nodes connected along a first electrical pathway corresponding to an actual electrical network of a living heart, a second plurality of nodes connected along a second electrical pathway corresponding to a conceptual electrical phenomenon of a living heart, a first plurality of light emitters disposed along the first electrical pathway, the first plurality of light emitters demonstrating at least one of the physiological cardiac events, the cardiac pathologies, and the cardiac electrophysiologic patterns;
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- demonstrating, using at least the first plurality of light emitters, at least one of the physiological cardiac events, cardiac axes, cardiac pathologies, cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to physiological cardiac events, and cardiac electrophysiological patterns related to cardiac pathologies, based on the user input.
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