Patent Document ID: 20110208079
Application ID: 12811841
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An atrial fibrillation (AF) monitoring system comprising: a source of ECG waveform data; a P wave feature extractor; an R-R interval feature extractor; an AF classifier responsive to a P wave feature and an R-R interval feature which classifies a heart rhythm as AF or non-AF; a corrector responsive to the AF classifier for reclassifying a heart rhythm previously classified as AF by use of reclassification criteria; an atrial fibrillation alarm responsive to the AF classifier and the corrector for setting an AF Begin alarm at the beginning of an AF episode and an AF End alarm at the end of an AF episode; an AF burden calculator responsive to heart rhythms classified as AF and the beginning and ending of an AF episode which calculates AF burden; and a display responsive to the AF burden calculator for reporting an AF burden calculation.