Chest Electrode Template Grid for Repeatable At-Home ECG Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Determining accurate chest electrode placement for at-home ECG monitoring is challenging without professional assistance, as patients lack knowledge of intercostal spaces and proper placement locations for chest leads.
Innovation Solution
A device using the Jugular notch and Xiphoid process as datum reference points, with a template grid to memorialize electrode positions, ensuring correct placement and allowing at-home ECG measurements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If patients perform ECG monitoring at home without professional assistance, then convenience and accessibility are improved, but electrode placement accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a template device as an intermediary tool between the patient and the electrode placement process. This template serves as a mediator that guides patients to correctly position electrodes on their chests by providing pre-marked anatomical landmarks and placement locations, thereby maintaining measurement precision while enabling convenient at-home use
Solution Approach 2:
The template device is prepared in advance with pre-printed anatomical landmarks (such as the jugular notch and xiphoid process) and electrode placement positions. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for patients to have professional knowledge during the actual ECG taking process, allowing them to achieve accurate placement through simple follow-up of the pre-established guide
2Measurement precision
If professional assistance is required for electrode placement, then placement accuracy is improved, but device complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The template device enables patients to perform electrode placement themselves without requiring professional assistance. The template provides all necessary guidance (anatomical landmarks, placement positions) that patients need, transforming a previously professional-only task into a self-service activity that maintains accuracy while reducing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The template device creates a simplified copy or representation of the correct electrode placement configuration on the patient's chest. By replicating the professional placement pattern through the template's pre-marked guidelines, patients can achieve the same accuracy as professional placement without the complexity of learning and executing the placement procedure
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AI summary
Disclosed are devices and methods for determining and memorializing chest electrode placement locations on a user. The device utilizes two datum reference points in the patient's anatomy, the Jugular notch and the Xiphoid process, which are easily found and repeatable and which serve to ensure the device is in the correct position to memorialize chest electrode placement locations. The device may comprise a first plate and a second plate operatively coupled to the first plate so that the second plate slides along a vertical axis of the first plate and the first plate slides along a vertical access of the second plate. The device may further comprise a template grid having a plurality of cells printed thereon. The template grid may have a coordinate system for identifying each of the plurality of cells. The template grid may be modified to indicate a set of chest electrode placement locations on the user.