Patent ID: 8798727

Claim:
A wearable cardiac arrhythmia monitoring and detection device comprising: a substrate having a first end incorporating a first electrode, a second end incorporating a second electrode, and an intermediate portion connecting the first and second ends, the intermediate portion incorporating an integrated monitoring device; wherein the integrated monitoring device comprises: (i) an amplifier configured to receive and amplify electrocardiography data from the first and second electrodes; (ii) a programmable microprocessor configured to receive the electrocardiography data from the amplifier and to analyze the received data; (iii) a data storage device configured to receive and store at least a portion of the electrocardiography data from the programmable microprocessor; and (iv) a power supply; and further wherein the integrated monitoring device is configured to: (v) determine the duration of heart beat intervals from the electrocardiography data for a selected analysis segment comprising a plurality of heart beat intervals; (vi) calculate an instantaneous heart rate for each of the heart beat intervals in the analysis segment; (vii) calculate a test result using the calculated instantaneous heart rates; and (viii) compare the test result with a predetermined threshold to discriminate between different types of cardiac arrhythmia.