Distributed multi-user replication-based system for real time data access during cardiology procedures
AssigneeGE Medical Systems SA
InventorsStephen T. Stoycos, Ewin Michael Kiser
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Abstract
A distributed multi-user system for real time data access during cardiology procedures. The system includes an interactive computer network which can be used to simultaneously display data from a cardiology procedure on a plurality of devices and at a plurality of locations. The system is implemented through various replication topologies which allow the simultaneous access a cardiology study during the procedure. The study can be displayed at any of the plurality of locations, which may be local or remote, during the procedure.
Claims22
A method of accessing a study record taken during a cardiac catheterization procedure, the procedure being conducted in a cardiac catheterization lab, comprising the acts of
- (a) inserting at least one catheter into a patient comprising a heart, the catheters terminating in a position proximate to the heart and comprising one or more sensors configured to sense data from the heart;
- (b) stimulating the heart with electrical signals from the catheter;
- (c) sensing data from the heart;
- (d) transmitting the data from the sensors to a data collection device;
- (e) transmitting the data from the data collection device to a central publisher;
- (f) replicating the data;
- (g) transmitting the replicated data from the central publisher to a plurality of client workstations;
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- (h) simultaneously displaying the data on the plurality of client workstations during the cardiac catheterization procedure.
A method of accessing a study record taken during a cardiac catheterization procedure, the procedure being conducted in a cardiac catheterization lab, comprising the acts of:
- (a) transmitting data from a catheter to a data collection device;
- (b) transmitting the data from the data collection device to a central publisher;
- (c) replicating the data;
- (d) transmitting the replicated data from the central publisher to a plurality of client workstations;
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- (e) simultaneously displaying the data on the plurality of client workstations during the cardiac catheterization procedure.
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