Abstract: An ECG analysis system is responsive to patient ECG data for performing an analysis of the ECG data to determine whether acute MI is present. The system first analyzes the ECG data by standard ECG analysis to determine whether acute MI is present. This analysis is followed in a first mode of operation by ACI-TIPI analysis to estimate the probability of acute MI from patient characteristics and the ECG data. In a second mode, when the standard ECG analysis is definitive as to the presence of acute MI the ACI-TIPI analysis is not run and the user is presented with only the results of the standard interpretation. If the standard ECG analysis is indeterminate as to the presence of acute MI, then the ACI-TIPI analysis is run and the results of the ACI-TIPI analysis are presented to the user.

Abstract: An ECG analysis system is responsive to patient ECG data for performing an analysis of the ECG data to determine whether acute MI is present. The system first analyzes the ECG data by standard ECG analysis to determine whether acute MI is present. This analysis is followed in a first mode of operation by ACI-TIPI analysis to estimate the probability of acute MI from patient characteristics and the ECG data. In a second mode, when the standard ECG analysis is definitive as to the presence of acute MI the ACI-TIPI analysis is not run and the user is presented with only the results of the standard interpretation. If the standard ECG analysis is indeterminate as to the presence of acute MI, then the ACI-TIPI analysis is run and the results of the ACI-TIPI analysis are presented to the user.

Abstract: A centralized patient monitoring system includes a central station which receives patient information from bedside monitors. The patient information is presented on a video display screen and may include patient demographic information, physiological parameters and a waveform. The display screen is divided into sectors, with each sector containing information for one patient. When an alarm condition occurs at one of the bedside monitors, the alarm condition is transmitted to the central station and is displayed in the corresponding sector of the video display screen. In addition, the alarm condition is highlighted by changing the background in the alarming sector from its normal color, typically black, to a neutral color such as blue, which is easily distinguishable from the normal color and which does not obscure the patient information being displayed. The background of the sector is changed back to the normal color when the alarm is acknowledged by a user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and apparatus for loading data storage disks (e.g. rigid optical disks) onto a spindle assembly for rotation relative to a write/read head. The system is characterized by a disk carrier which is adapted to releasably capture a disk, and apparatus for releasing and separating the disk from the carrier so that the disk can be rotated in a plane spaced from the carrier plane. Such apparatus comprises carrier support means for supporting a disk-capturing carrier in a predetermined plane, disk release means, cooperatable with disk latching members of the carrier, for releasing a disk from the carrier, disk support means for supporting a released disk in the plane of the carrier, and means for imparting relative movement between the carrier support means and the disk support means to locate the disk in a desired plane of rotation, and to locate the carrier in a plane spaced therefrom.