A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
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379/5, 326/13.1
A61B 5/02 (2006.01) A61B 5/0402 (2006.01) A61B 5/22 (2006.01) A63B 24/00 (2006.01) G06F 19/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2007710
Apparatus and method for monitoring exercise activity and exercise responses of a user/patient. The monitoring apparatus and method forms the basis of a physical fitness system or a patient rehabilitation system for rehabilitating cardiac, orthopedic or other patients that require physiological monitoring during a therapy session. The system includes a patient station which in the case of cardiac rehabilitation includes an ECG monitor and a transmitting unit for transmitting ECG data and patient speech signals over a voice grade phone line. A base unit, located at a remote location, receives a composite analog signal containing the ECG data and voice signal and includes signal processing devices for separating the signal and for continuously storing the ECG data on a mass storage device for the entire therapy session. At the conclusion of the therapy session, selected portions of the stowed ECG data can be transferred to a removable storage medium such as a floppy disk. The base station includes means for transmitting commands in the form of DTMF tones to the patient station to initiate the therapy session and in a more preferred embodiment, to control the work load of an exercise device being used by the patient. The remote patient is preferably connected to the patient transmitting unit by a fiber optic link. Local patients are connected to the base unit by a RF link. The ECG data is transmitted in a frequency band of substantially 2170 Hz to 2370 Hz using frequency modulation on a carrier of substantially 2270 Hz. The system includes notch and band pass filters for removing the selected frequency band from the voice signal.
Begun Semi J.
Haner Lambert
Louis Timothy
Trybuski John E.
Ridout & Maybee Llp
Scott & Fetzer Company The
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