Adhesive extender for medical electrode and use thereof with wearable monitor
AssigneeIcentia Inc.
InventorsPierre Paquet, David Levesque, Pierre Fecteau
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Abstract
The adhesive extenders can be used to cover and surround the medical electrode assemblies on the skin of a patient. A wearable monitor can be used to obtain electrogram data from the patient via the electrodes.
Claims28
A method using an adhesive extender to apply a medical electrode assembly to a patient's skin, the method comprising the steps of:
- mounting the medical electrode assembly to the patient's skin, the medical electrode assembly having an inner face and an outer face, a connector protruding from the outer face, said mounting the medical electrode assembly to the patient's skin including adhering the inner face to the patient's skin and exposing the connector opposite the patient's skin;
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- adhering the adhesive extender, the adhesive extender having a unitary flexible sheet with an aperture and an adhesive face, the adhesive face having an inner portion surrounding the aperture, and an outer portion surrounding the inner portion, said adhering including adhering the inner portion of the adhesive face onto the adhered medical electrode assembly and adhering the outer portion of the adhesive face to the patient's skin surrounding the adhered medical electrode assembly, the adhered adhesive extender surrounding the connector and exposing the electrode connector through the aperture.
A plurality of wearable monitors including at least 5 wearable monitors each comprising a housing having at least two integrated electrode connectors, and a monitoring unit housed within the housing and being connected to the electrode connectors, the monitoring unit having a computer-readable memory having stored electrogram data corresponding to a signal received, over a period of time, from medical electrode assemblies adhered to a patient and connected to the electrode connectors, the period of time being of at least 48 hours, the stored electrogram data having a noise burden defined as the duration of electrogram data containing noise divided by the period of time, the average noise burden of the plurality of wearable monitors being of less than 22%.
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