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Medical Applications Electrocardiogram (ECG) Glossary of Terms AED Automated External Defibrillator – Auto diagnosis with voice directed treatment. EKG/ECG ElectroCardioGram – skin surface, heart monitor
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Glossary of Terms • AED Automated External Defibrillator – Auto diagnosis with voice directed treatment. • EKG/ECG ElectroCardioGram – skin surface, heart monitor • Holter Monitor Portable device for continuously monitoring the electrical activity of the heart for at least 24 hours. Can be external or implantable. • Defibrillation Delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the heart. • T-wave alterans A change in the shape of the heartbeat signal on an every other beat basis that is not apparent to the naked eye. • Right Leg Drive An operational amplifier deriving common mode voltage is used to invert the common-mode signal and drive it back into the patient through the right leg. • RFI Radio Frequency Interference • ESD Electro Static Discharge
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ECG – Waveform Characteristics • ECG Signals have two components: • ECG Waveform • 0.05 Hz to 150 Hz bandwidth per Medical Standards • Average R Wave Amplitude is 1.8mV • Some waveforms can be as big as 10 mV p-p. • T wave Alterans are only a few microvolts in amplitude • Pacing Artifact • Medical Standards require 2mV and 200µs detection • Average pulse is 1 mV and 500µs but can be much smaller
ECG – Patient Skin Surface Characteristics • Skin Impedance • Standards require of common mode rejection at 51K ohms skin to electrode impedance at 10Hz • Good Silver-Silver Chloride electrodes yield about 10 K ohm electrode to skin impedance • Stainless Steel electrodes can yield skin impedances of several meg-ohms • Defibrillation Voltage • 5000 volts, 360 Joules • DC Voltage • Medical Standards require being capable of acquiring ECG with 300 mV of DC. Mostly due to half cell potential of electrodes, stainless steel can yield 500 mV of DC • 60 Hz Noise • Average is several mV
Exercise Heart Rate Monitor(Example: treadmill with heart rate monitor)