Patent ID: 7668589
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A patient-portable heart-condition monitoring and reporting system comprising an anatomy-contact sensor including an audio sensing element, and plural electrical-signal sensing elements, and signal-processing circuit structure operatively connected to said elements, operable, during a selected time interval, (a) to collect therefrom audio and electrical-ECG signals detected by said elements under a circumstance with said sensor contacting a selected anatomical site on a person's anatomy, and (b) to create therefrom an output signal constructed to generate, on a common time scale, a time-based graphical, laddergram display keyed to selected ECG fiducials, and including time-specific audio-event heart-sound marks datumed to, and projecting linearly from opposite, upper and lower sides of, a generally horizontal neutral axis, said marks including both systolically-related heart-sound marks deployed on one of said opposite sides of said axis, and diastolically-related heart-sound marks deployed on the other, opposite side of said axis.