Patent ID: 6125296
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: A61B,G01D

Abstract:
A portable machine for recording electrocardiographic signals and oxygen saturation signals on a removable memory device comprising,an oxygen saturation sensor constructed and arranged for attachment to a patient to provide an oxygen saturation value electrical signal representative of the oxygen saturation value of the patient,patient lead wires with electrodes constructed and arranged to attach to the skin of said patient to furnish electrocardiographic signals,a removable memory device coupled to said patient lead wires and said oxygen saturation sensor constructed and arranged to store the electrocardiographic signals and the oxygen saturation value signals, anda pacemaker detector constructed and arranged to detect the pacemaker pulses at the electrodes generated by a pacemaker when the patient has a pacemaker and convert the detected pacemaker pulses into a digital format suitable for storage in the removable memory device and coupled to the removable memory device and the patient electrodes when the patient has a pacemaker.