Personal electrocardiology recorder
AssigneeKontron Holding A.G.
InventorDaniele Marangoni
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Abstract
A personal electrocardiology recorder having body electrodes for detecting heart action signals, an amplifier, a signal converter for converting the detected signals into signals recordable on magnetic tape, and a tape recorder, wherein the body electrodes are disposed directly on the tape recorder casing, the measuring and reference electrodes being disposed on a first wall and the earthing electrode being disposed on a wall other than the first wall, and wherein a microphone for recording a spoken description of the symptoms is provided. The recorder can be carried permanently by patients and can be switched on during the occurrence of corresponding symptoms for recording a diagnostically relevant ECG phase.
Claims17
A hand-held electrocardiology recorder for recording heart signals of a patient comprising:
- (a) a hand-held tape recording means having a casing with at least first and second walls;
- (b) a measuring electrode and a reference electrode disposed on the first wall of the casing for contacting the chest of the patient and detecting heart signals;
- (c) a grounding electrode disposed on the second wall of the casing such that electrical contact between the patient's chest and the grounding electrode can be made by the patient's hand touching the grounding electrode while the patient's wrist contacts the chest;
- (d) amplifier means located within the casing for amplifying the signals detected by the electrodes;
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- (e) converter means located within the casing for converting the detected and amplified signals into recordable signals.
The recorder of clam 1 wherein the amplifier means is an amplifier.
A hand-held, self-contained electrocardiology recorder for recording heart signals on magnetic tape comprising:
- (a) a hand-held tape recording means having a casing with a first wall;
- (b) a measuring electrode;
- (c) a reference electrode, said measuring and reference electrodes located and disposed in spaced-apart relationship on said first wall of the casing for detecting heart signals;
- (d) grounding electrode located and disposed on the casing on other than the first wall thereof;
- (e) amplifier located within the casing for amplifying the signals detected by the measuring and reference electrodes;
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- (f) converter means located within the casing for converting the detected and amplified signals into signals recordable on magnetic tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.