Patent ID: 7308301

Claim:
A method for detecting a likelihood that a patient is experiencing one of several arrhythmias, the method comprising the steps of: (a) acquiring baseline ECG samples, each of which exhibiting an arrhythmia to be detected and a baseline arrhythmia-free ECG sample; (b) segmenting each sample into a fixed length; (c) mapping a reconstructed phase space related to each acquired baseline ECG sample; (d) determining at least one model describing the reconstructed phase space for each acquired baseline ECG sample; (e) acquiring an ECG sample to be tested; (f) segmenting the ECG sample to be tested into a fixed length; (g) mapping each segment of the ECG sample into a reconstructed phase space related to the ECG sample to be tested; and (h) determining which of the models of the reconstructed phase space of the baseline ECG samples most accurately describes the reconstructed phase space related to the ECG sample to be tested.