Impedance Hyperaemic Stress Echocardiography
OwnerJijibhoy J. Patelinventor
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Abstract
A method for performing echocardiography comprising placing compression cuffs on each of a patient's 4 extremities, applying compression rotatingly to subsets of 3 out of the 4 cuffs and monitoring EKG during applying compression rotatingly to subsets of 3 out of the 4 cuffs, thereby obtaining an echocardiograph of the patient's heart.
Claims7
A surrogate method for performing echocardiography for use with patients unable to perform on a treadmill and in which no medications for increasing heart rate are used, the method comprising the following steps:
- Placing compression cuffs on each of a patient's 4 extremities;
- Providing compression on a first set of three of the extremities while simultaneously leaving the cuff on one of the extremities uncompressed;
- Rotating compression to a second set of three extremities while simultaneously deflating the cuff on the fourth extremity previously under compression;
- Rotating compression to a third set of three extremities while simultaneously deflating the cuff on the fourth extremity previously under compression;
- Rotating compression to a fourth set of three extremities while simultaneously deflating the cuff on the fourth extremity previously under compression;
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- Continuously monitoring EKG before, during and after the four compression and decompression cycles, thereby obtaining an echocardiograph of the patient's heart.
A method for performing echocardiography comprising placing compression cuffs on each of a patient's 4 extremities, applying compression rotatingly to subsets of 3 out of the 4 cuffs and monitoring EKG during applying compression rotatingly to subsets of 3 out of the 4 cuffs, thereby obtaining an echocardiograph of the patient's heart.
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