Patent ID: 7283864

Claim:
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system, comprising: an implantable medical device including: a pacing circuit to deliver pacing pulses; and an implant controller, coupled to the pacing circuit, to control the delivery of the pacing pulses; and an external system communicatively coupled to the implantable medical device via telemetry, the external system including: a user interface including one or more user input devices and one or more presentation devices; a programming circuit, coupled to the user interface, to program the implantable medical device; and a wide-QRS detection and alerting circuit coupled to the user interface, the wide-QRS detection and alerting circuit including: a wide-QRS detector to receive an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and detect a wide QRS complex from the ECG signal; and a wide-QRS indicator, coupled to the wide-QRS detector, to produce a wide-QRS indication including text directly indicating the detection of the wide QRS complex using the one or more presentation devices in response to the detection of the wide QRS complex.