Smartphone and ecg device microbial shield
AssigneeAlivecor, Inc.
InventorsDavid E. ALBERT, Christopher Ammon MYLES
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Abstract
A shield can inhibit transfer of microbes and bodily fluids from a first side to a second side of the shield, while allowing an ECG device adjacent the first side of the shield to sense separate electrical potentials on skin adjacent the second side. The shield comprises a flexible sheet with a first electrically conductive portion and a second electrically conductive portion; the first and second electrically conductive portions are separated from one another by an electrically insulating portion.
Claims17
An ECG monitoring system comprising
- a handheld ECG sensing device comprising two ECG sensors;
- and
- a disposable shield in communication with said two ECG sensors, said disposable shield comprising
- a first electrically conductive portion;
- a second electrically conductive portion;
- and
- an insulating portion separating said first and said second electrically conducting portions;
- wherein said ECG sensing device senses separate electrical potentials on a first and a second skin segment of a subject when said first electrically conductive portion and said second electrically conductive portion are contacted by said first and said second skin segments of said subject.
A method for managing contamination of a sensing device, said method comprising
- providing a handheld ECG sensing device;
- providing a disposable shield;
- placing said handheld ECG sensing device in communication with said disposable shield;
- placing said disposable shield in contact with a skin surface of a subject, wherein said handheld ECG sensing device senses separate electrical potentials on a first and a second skin segment of a subject without said first and said second skin segments of said subject contacting said handheld ECG sensing device;
- and
- disposing of said disposable shield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.