This invention is in the field of monitoring and diagnosing electrical activity within the human body.
This application has to demonstrate the prior art, for example, in the heart, electrical signals coordinate the rhythmic pumping of the cardiac muscles and the bio-potential signals resulting from the heart's electrical activity are routinely recorded. This recordation of the well-coordinated electrical events that take place within the heart is called an electrocardiogram (ECG). There are many different types of ECG. However, rhythmic ECG signals with respect to various time and amplitude and frequency content are obtained from different regions of the heart. These regions around the organ include the conduct bundle and myocardium that generate various electrical activity bio-electric signals that travel throughout the human body surface. The purpose of this ‘Enhance Dynamic Flow Data’ (hereafter referred to as EDFD) electrode signal transmission is to distribute information from extra high impedance when a necessary function is being carried out. For example, body surface electrical phenomena currency exhibits only about 10% of the result of this electro-physiological activity in the presence of various bio-electric voltages. If using EDFD electrode a system may be able to obtain good ECG recordings. Clinically, the ECG technique is currently used to diagnose a number of physiological conditions. The status of heart muscles (e.g., potential abnormal ischemia) is not often detected and various life-threatening heart arrhythmias and ischemia are not routinely identified. The reason for non-identification for ischemia in pre-existing ECG systems is because the pre-existing systems are not sensitive enough to display this information. Specifically, the pre-existing systems lack the detection in “T” section of ultra low frequency relative to the time domain linear waveform; therefore, if detected, the information could be helpful for more pure signal and allow guidance on more specific testing modalities for the patient. Use of the ECG is especially widespread and the equipment is highly advanced for ischemia & infarct diagnosis. There is a sophisticated ischemic & infarct diagnostic ECG instrument, and ischemia monitoring devices for routine use for a variety of medical environments and even portable devices. In spite of the sophisticated ECG systems, the missing generated data still has a lot of promising information that has not been exploited to its maximum potentialities, and current system missing this generated data may not make a proper diagnosis of a heart condition. With little training, most medical staff cannot obtain a good deal of information from the ECG signals. Automated, computer analysis is a very accurate assistant to the Cardiologist in diagnosing various heart abnormalities. Because of the nature and convenience of obtaining and interpreting the ECG signals, all ECG systems are very different, but almost every patient in an operating room (OR), intensive care unit (ICU), or ER environment is routinely monitored with an ECG equipment, so the waveform settlement are very important. Therefore, it is highly desirable in the art to have a special electrode that provides a highly sensitive signal, micro-chip input that is indicative of the state of strip EDFD electrode. This input chip corresponds to a numeric value with respect to the heart activity to maximize heart's information activity, respectively.
Another shortcoming in the previous ECG systems are measuring the length of wires mainly related to the device and to patient, and then having these long wires tangled. The old ECG systems are used for routine patient monitoring, or screening normally obtained in the OR, ICU, or ER environment. When using the old ECG systems, the 12 leads ECG with 10 leads cables are inconvenient to use and to put on the patient. When monitoring or screening the patients, the lead cables must have good contact with the skin and must monitored in a special environment. The one strip with six electrodes are relatively simple to attach by an adhesive patch and easy to remove. (i.e., usually the upper-body clothing must be removed). Sometimes during use, the leads often became disconnected or out-of-order that requires re-set up. Such difficulties cause the following problems. A trained technical staff personnel is normally required to set up the leads. Often the 10 lead cables are winding and tangled at all times; therefore, resulting in wrongful connections of the leads and not being able to obtain the desired ECG data. There is an additional cost associated with using trained staff, and the current medical reimbursement policies tend to encourage minimal use of trained staff in the hospital. The attachment protocol of the lead cables take a considerable amount of time especially when multiple electrodes are required. The ordeal is difficult and tedious for the patient. Furthermore, if a patient were to be relocated in a different area in the hospital, all electrodes must be detached or the entire unit must relocate with the patient. Therefore, it is highly necessary in the art to use a Bluetooth module or a wireless configuration between patient that is connected to leads and device that monitors and displays information.
In hospital use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (hereafter referred to as MRI) machines have become a routine method for obtaining information regarding a patient's anatomy and physiology. Currently, however, not many patients are monitored with an ECG instruments while they are in the MRI. Basically, the MRI and ECG equipment are not compatible. The operating MRI produces strong radio frequency (RF) fields and large static magnetic fields are always present. These fields create a strong magnetic flux that induces current flow in electrodes and to any attached electrode wires that form a loop. The result of the increase in the magnet flux has been reported or a resulted in instances of localized skin burns from the electrodes and looped wires residing in MRI machines. Therefore, causing current distribution that is diffused throughout the patient's body. Such situations can be fatal if the current induced is sufficiently large. The presence of equipment near the MRI machine can also interfere with the diagnostic quality of the MRI images themselves by causing distortions in the MRI output. Also, the radio-frequency (RF) fields of the MRI machine can corrupt the weak signals being recorded by ECG equipment and especially even weaker signals associated with 12 lead ECG instruments. For this reason, a special screen room is built around the MRI machine to prevent from affecting other equipment in the vicinity of the imaging device. Generally, all patients in OR, ER, ICU, CCU, have to remove all unnecessary equipment, and must keep it outside the screen room. To solve these and other associated problems with prior art measuring with EDFD electrodes, it is an object of the present invention to provide a better ECG waveform that avoids a macro electronic countermeasure in hospital situation. It is an object of the present invention to provide easy set up for using EDFD electrode.
The present invention provides a solution comprises EDFD electrode with a support ‘Enhancement Dynamic Flow Data’ (EDFD) chip with amplifiers build in the middle of leads cable, so that the signal will be received from both the front buffer amplifier level and the high input resistance by the request from pre-amplifier allowing electrically insulated data even when the ECG signal has taken up a very weak signal from the body. Preferably, the arrangement is such that EDFD chip will also be a more effective and will enhance the bioelectrical signal between the electrode and the device, and remove disturbance from the electrode. The present invention creates a bioelectrical signal that will be clean without interference; such interferences can migrate under bioelectricity action and move up to the electrode causing false data. The EDFD chip programmed and support may include the EDFD electrode signal processing unit; if desired, the ECG signal may be more stable provided, separately or combined with the PCB-support, on the lead cables to the device when the EDFD electrode is being used. By using the present invention amplifiers, one can further enhance the EDFD electrode characteristics of the dynamic flow data. Typically, however, it is desirable that an electronic signal from EDFD electrode transform into an order to take advantage of amplifiers that provide bio-potential and basic signal. Specifically, the EDFD electrode produces an electronic signal in response and proportional to the present invention device, and preferably is used to control the flow of current in a circuit by means of an advance amplifier. One of the advantages of the present invention is to increase clear signal and decrease noise in proportion to the amount of current flowing in the detection circuit.
It is an object of the present invention to minimize patient preparation for EDFD electrode measurement. It is an object of the present invention to avoid lead cables looping and curling, or stirring. It is an object of the present invention to provide standard clinicians and hospital with an EDFD electrode that is easy to use without extensive training. It is an object of the present invention to provide two leads instead of ten line cables. It is an object of the present invention to minimize noise by EDFD electrode and two lead cables. It is an object of the present invention to provide a EDFD electrode instrument with low power consumption. It is an object of the present invention to provide an EDFD electrode that can be used at various sides with an output that interfaces with standard amplifiers, filters, hardware devices, and computer software.
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In conclusion, the overall EDFD electrodes and two separate lead lines to the patient are an improvement over the standard techniques used to this day. The improvement features of the present invention include the method of a more consistence signal where the high-impedance contact requires no special or skin abrasion preparation that directly decreases unwanted signal from by using EDFD electrode. Next, the low cost of the present invention compared with presently commercially available products take too much time and money to prepare. Another improvement is that the present invention has two lead lines instead of the standard 10 lines cables. This is an improvement since the lead lines are easily decipherable and will result in less misplacement of the lines that causes direct result of accurate data. Another improvement of the present invention is the capability to measure unsteadiness bio-waveform available at various frequencies, and offering an easy set-up for the patient. The set-up is an improvement because it consolidates all the 10 multiple lines into 2 line lead cables, specially 4 on one the body lead cable and 6 on the chest lead cable. Another improvement of the present invention is retention compatibility strength from emanating organ compared to the standard commercially available filtering, amplification, and hardware. The present invention allows the capture of more data fluctuations by software programs on controller chip. The controller chip takes the data, determines the modulation noise compared to the actual modulation data from the chest lead cable and displays that data in the form of illumination property on a screen.
In describing the invention, which is illustrated in the drawings, specific terminology is presorted to the chip for clarity. However, it was not intended that the invention be limited to the specific terms so selected and it is to be understood that each specific term includes all technical equivalents that operate in a similar manner to accomplish a similar purpose.
Although preferred EDFD electrode and wire or wireless leads cable of the invention have been herein described, it is understood that various changes and modifications in the illustrated and described structure can be affected without departure from the basic principles that underlie the invention. Changes and modifications of this type are, therefore, deemed to be circumscribed by the spirit and scope of the invention, except as the same may be necessarily modified by the appended claims or reasonable equivalents thereof.