A scalable and shiftable Bayesian defibrillation efficacy estimator

Author

Li, Hui ; Malkin, Robert A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Memphis Univ., Memphis, TN, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

371

Abstract

When an automatic defibrillator is implanted, it is essential to accurately estimate a highly effective defibrillation dose from a minimum number of fibrillation episodes. An optimum, fixed step-size, up-down Bayesian protocol has been previously proposed for this purpose. However, the previous protocol can not be adapted to new defibrillation waveforms, electrode configurations, etc. This paper presents a scalable and shiftable version of the previous protocol in the form of lookup tables which can be easily adapted as defibrillation technologies evolve

Keywords

Bayes methods; biomedical electrodes; defibrillators; prosthetics; table lookup; defibrillation waveforms; electrode configurations; fibrillation episodes; highly effective defibrillation dose; implantable defibrillator; optimum fixed step-size up-down Bayesian protocol; scalable/shiftable Bayesian defibrillation efficacy estimator; Bayesian methods; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Computational complexity; Defibrillation; Electrodes; Protocols; Root mean square; Table lookup; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.754553

Filename

754553