Patent ID: 7937137
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: A61B,A61N,G16H

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium programmed with instructions for performing a method of identifying and/or assessing patient arrhythmias, the medium comprising instructions for causing a programmable processor to: obtain sets of high, median, and low percentile measures of a heart parameter of a patient collected over a plurality of successive time intervals, each set of high, median, and low percentile measures corresponding to a respective time interval of the plurality of successive time intervals, the sets gathered from a memory of a medical device implanted within the patient; for each set, calculate a ratio corresponding to the magnitude of the gaps between the percentile measures; and using each ratio, for the time interval associated with each ratio, determine at least one of an indication of an arrhythmia and at least a partial duration of the arrhythmia.