Patent Document ID: 20060189874
Application ID: 11316333
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for non-invasive diagnosis of states of vasovagal syncope in a patient placed on a tilt table and subjected to a tilt-test, the apparatus comprising: means for sensing the patient's endocardiac acceleration; means for sensing the patient's heart rate; and analyzer means receiving as inputs said endocardiac acceleration and said heart rate, and outputting information about the sympthetico-vagal activity of the patient; wherein: the means for sensing endocardiac acceleration comprise an external accelerator sensor suitable for being held in contact with the patient's rib cage; and the analyzer means comprise classifier means suitable, in the event of a syncope occurring, for determining one type of syncope amongst a plurality of syncope types as a function of the endocardiac acceleration and heart rate values sensed during a plurality of heart cycles preceding the occurrence of the syncope.