Patent ID: 11969606
Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DESIGNATED ACTIVITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for helping monitor a patient, the patient having worn a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system for at least one hour during which the WCD system included a defibrillation electrode, a support structure worn by the patient so as to maintain the defibrillation electrode on a body of the patient, an energy storage module storing an electrical charge configured to be discharged via the defibrillation electrode through the patient so as to deliver a shock to the patient, an Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode sensing an ECG signal of the patient, a WCD processor analyzing short segments of the sensed ECG signal, and a memory storing WCD system data about the sensed ECG signal, the stored WCD system data being generated from at least one hour of the sensed ECG signal, the method comprising:
receiving the stored WCD system data;
inputting computed raw heart rate (HR) values for respective ones of the short ECG signal segments;
aggregating groups of the raw HR values into respective first time bins that are arranged in a time sequence;
deriving first HR values for respective ones of the first time bins, the first HR value of a certain one of the first time bins being derived from the raw HR values aggregated into the certain first time bin;
replacing a certain one of the first HR values of a certain one of the first time bins by an adjusted first HR value that is derived from the first HR value of the first time bin that is within a filter range of the certain first time bin in the time sequence, but is not derived from the certain first HR value; and
then storing at least some of the first HR values and the adjusted first HR value, the stored first HR values and adjusted first HR value having been thus derived from the stored WCD system data that is generated from at least one hour of the sensed ECG signal.