Trends in design of interpretive ECG carts

Author

Reddy, B.R.S. ; Christenson, D.W. ; Rowlandson, G.I. ; Zachman, D.

Author_Institution

Marquette Electron. Inc., Milwaukee, WI, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

4-7 Nov. 1988

Firstpage

23

Abstract

Recent trends in the design of stand-along interpretive electrocardiographic (EG) carts are presented. These carts are now being designed to serve a variety of highly complex clinical and research applications, once supported only by mainframe computers. With the advent of faster microprocessors, memory chips and liquid crystal displays hardware design of these carts is getting standardized, and emphasis is shifting to software design. An example of such a cart is examined which has software packages designed for 12-lead ECG analysis, vectorcardiography, pacemaker ECG analysis, and high-frequency analysis of signal-averaged ECGs. It is predicted that the nest generation ECG carts will have networking to access complete patient data.<>

Keywords

biomedical equipment; electrocardiography; medical diagnostic computing; reviews; 12-lead ECG analysis; hardware design; interpretive ECG carts; liquid crystal displays; memory chips; microprocessors; pacemaker ECG analysis; signal-averaged ECGs; vectorcardiography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0785-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94385

Filename

94385