A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
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B
326/13, 324/45
A61B 5/04 (2006.01) A61B 5/0424 (2006.01) G01R 27/16 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1157530
ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE MONITOR FOR ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY ABSTRACT A patient's own heart is used as a voltage source for measurement of EKG electrode impedance. The amplitude of an EKG signal obtained while the EKG electrodes are shorted together with an impedance is compared to the amplitude of an EKG signal obtained under identical conditions except that the impedance short is not present. The value of the inter-electrode impedance is then equal to one less than the ratio between the unshorted amplitude and the shorted amplitude times the value of the shorting impedance. In a preferred embodiment, the value of the shorting impedance is made equal to the maximum permitted inter-electrode impedance. Then, if the amplitude or the EKG signal taken from a patient decreases upon temporary insertion of the impedance short to a value less than half of the EKG amplitude obtained without the impedance short, the inter-electrode impedance is too high. YO978-029
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International Business Machines Corporation
Kerr Alexander
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