Abstract: Enhancement of marking symbols indicative of abnormal ECG beats displayed on a CRT storage tube may be effected by periodic revivification. An arrhythmia computer is utilized to detect and classify the abnormal beats-and their location is marked by a symbol generated by a character generating circuit. Visual enhancement is effectuated by periodically resetting the character generator in accordance with the desired refresh repetition rate.

Abstract: An improved system for displaying annotated physiological signals processes the signals for two dimensional display on an oscilloscope, for annotation with time-of-day and patient information, and for marking relative to a plurality of detected, abnormal physiological events. The physiological signal is traced during a first time interval after which the time-of-day and patient information is annotated appropriately on the display during a second time interval. During a third time interval, the display is marked to identify those physiological events which have been detected by the system as being abnormal. The display is created with maximum fidelity and without loss of signal information by this three pass process. Two independent channels of physiological signals are displayed on alternate horizontal lines in the display, again without loss of signal fidelity, by tracing the first channel during a first sweep and simultaneously storing the second channel within a memory for display during a second sweep.

Abstract: The system enables ambulatory monitoring of a patient's blood pressure and heart rate without the need for the patient to wear a portable magnetic tape recorder. The system takes the place of the tape recorder. ECG electrodes and a blood pressure cuff are affixed to the patient and are connected to a blood pressure measuring apparatus worn by the patient. The Data Acquisition and Storage System (DAS) is connected to the blood pressure measuring apparatus and includes a solid state storage device in which the successive measurements are stored. After the monitoring session, which may last 24 hours, the patient returns to the clinic, where the DAS is connected to a stationary charter that prints and plots the stored data in tabular and graphical form. The DAS includes a clock for determining the time of day at which the successive blood pressure readings are taken, and these times are stored along with the data.

Abstract: An improved system for displaying annotated physiological signals processes the signals for two-dimensional display on an oscilloscope, for annotation with time-of-day and patient information, and for marking relative to a plurality of detected, abnormal physiological events. The physiological signal is traced during a first time interval after which the time-of-day and patient information is annotated appropriately on the display during a second time interval. During a third time interval, the display is marked to identify those physiological events which have been detected by the system as being abnormal. The display is created with maximum fidelity and without loss of signal information by this three pass process. Two independent channels of physiological signals are displayed on alternate horizontal lines in the display, again without loss of signal fidelity, by tracing the first channel during a first sweep and simultaneously storing the second channel within a memory for display during a second sweep.

Abstract: A computer controlled method and apparatus for displaying an electrocardiograph utilizes a computer to store and display multiple channels of an ECG signal and to develop an AVSEP and arrhythmic display. A video ECG signal is stored in memory and the R waves of the ECG complexes are detected to form an R wave pulse train. Intervals of ECG memory are displayed from adresses representing a few cycles of the ECG signal. The display of the ECG signal is triggered by a corresponding R pulse train which is stored in an address which is offset sufficiently from the address of the ECG signal so that the entire ECG complex is displayed. The method and apparatus has the option wherein the display may be switched from a time moving scan display mode to a time stationary display mode over a fixed or variable interval of scanned ECG signals.