Apparatus and method for distinguishing wide complex heart beats

A computerized method of classifying a wide complex heart beat(s) comprising:

• providing a computing device having an input/output interface, one or more processors and a memory;
• receiving one or more wide complex heart beat amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization, and one or more baseline heart beat amplitudes and/or time-voltage area of ventricular repolarization via the input/output interface or the memory;
• determining a signal change in ventricular repolarization between the wide complex heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization and the baseline heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization using the one or more processors;
• and
• providing the signal change in ventricular repolarization via the input/output interface, wherein the signal change in ventricular repolarization provides an indication whether the wide complex heart beat(s) is from a ventricular source or a supraventricular source.

An apparatus for classifying a wide complex heart beat(s) comprising:

• an input/output interface;
• a memory;
• and
• one or more processors communicably coupled to the input/output interface and the memory, wherein the one or more processors:
• receive one or more wide complex heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization, and one or more baseline heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization via the input/output interface or the memory,
• determine a signal change in ventricular repolarization between the wide complex heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization and the baseline heart beat waveform amplitudes and/or time-voltage areas of ventricular repolarization using the one or more processors, and
• provide the signal change in ventricular repolarization via the input/output interface, wherein the signal change provides an indication whether the wide complex heart beat(s) is from a ventricular source or a supraventricular source.