TY - GEN
T1 - PC-based cardiac electrophysiological studies: A pacing system with real-time screen monitoring of endocardial electrograms
AU - Mak, MH
AU - Escalona, OJ
AU - Anderson, J
PY - 1996/12/15
Y1 - 1996/12/15
N2 - Programmed electrical stimulation is an important clinical procedure in the assessment of bradycardias and ventricular tachycardias. The standard instrumentation involved in this procedure is costly and limited in the aspects of intelligent interpretation of ECG events, realtime display and storage, including pre-events, and at the same time of being user friendly. We have developed a PC-based pacing system capable of delivering the required stimulation protocols used in, standard cardiac electrophysiological studies (EPS), with the extra facility of real-time screen display of the endocardial electrogram seen at the transvenous catheter electrodes. On the patient side, the system consists of an electrically isolated interface module with a regulated pulse driver and art ECG sensing circuitry, bath sharing a common pair of catheter terminals. At the computer side, a special software environment has been developed for easy interactive programming of the stimulation protocols, and real-rime ECG processing and display (30% of the screen). The developed PC-based system was tested during 4 complete EPS procedures in 4 different patients.
AB - Programmed electrical stimulation is an important clinical procedure in the assessment of bradycardias and ventricular tachycardias. The standard instrumentation involved in this procedure is costly and limited in the aspects of intelligent interpretation of ECG events, realtime display and storage, including pre-events, and at the same time of being user friendly. We have developed a PC-based pacing system capable of delivering the required stimulation protocols used in, standard cardiac electrophysiological studies (EPS), with the extra facility of real-time screen display of the endocardial electrogram seen at the transvenous catheter electrodes. On the patient side, the system consists of an electrically isolated interface module with a regulated pulse driver and art ECG sensing circuitry, bath sharing a common pair of catheter terminals. At the computer side, a special software environment has been developed for easy interactive programming of the stimulation protocols, and real-rime ECG processing and display (30% of the screen). The developed PC-based system was tested during 4 complete EPS procedures in 4 different patients.
KW - Bioelectric phenomena
KW - Cardiology
KW - Cardiovascular system
KW - Catheters
KW - Computer software
KW - Electrocardiography
KW - Electrophysiology
KW - Interactive computer systems
KW - Medical applications
KW - Real time systems
KW - Cardiac electrophysiology
KW - Endocardial electrograms
KW - Pacing system
KW - Programmed electrical simulation
KW - Personal computers
KW - cardiac pacing system
KW - catheter terminals
KW - electrically isolated interface module
KW - endocardial electrograms
KW - important clinical procedure
KW - programmed electrical stimulation
KW - real-time ECG processing
KW - real-time display
KW - real-time screen monitoring
KW - regulated pulse driver
KW - user friendly system
KW - ventricular tachycardias.
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U2 - 10.1109/CIC.1996.542555
DO - 10.1109/CIC.1996.542555
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 0-7803-3710-7
VL - 23
T3 - COMPUTERS IN CARDIOLOGY
SP - 389
EP - 392
BT - Unknown Host Publication
PB - IEEE
CY - 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017
T2 - 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting on Computers in Cardiology 1996, INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Y2 - 15 December 1996
ER -