Patent ID: 11969607
Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system, comprising:
a support structure configured to be worn by a patient;
an energy storage module configured to store an electrical charge;
a discharge circuit coupled to the energy storage module;
a transducer configured to render, from a sensed Electrocardiogram (ECG) of the patient, a physiological input that includes ECG data of the patient; and
a processor configured to:
perform a first-level analysis on a first portion of the physiological input to detect whether or not a possible shockable condition exists, the first portion including first ECG data from a first time segment,
perform, responsive to detecting by the first-level analysis that the possible shockable condition exists, a second-level analysis on a second portion of the physiological input to detect whether or not a shockable condition exists, the second portion including second ECG data from a second time segment, in which the second-level analysis is different from the first-level analysis, and performing the second-level analysis requires the processor to consume more energy than performing the first-level analysis if the first time segment had an equal duration with the second time segment, and
control, responsive to detecting that the shockable condition exists, the discharge circuit to discharge the stored electrical charge through the patient so as to deliver a shock to the patient while the support structure is worn by the patient.