ECG Symptom Matrix for Faster Heart Rhythm Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods of displaying and analyzing ECG data from ambulatory monitors inadequately integrate patient-perceived symptoms, requiring significant time for physicians to identify heart rhythms associated with these symptoms.
Innovation Solution
A method and system generate a symptom matrix displaying ECG data alongside patient-perceived symptoms, organized in rows and columns, allowing clinicians to easily identify correlations between symptoms and ECG events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If existing methods of displaying ECG data are used, then the data can be displayed to clinicians, but it takes a significant amount of time for physicians to identify and analyze the rhythms that occurred when patients felt symptoms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the ECG data display by creating separate columns for different symptom types and organizing ECG rhythms chronologically within each symptom column. This segmentation allows clinicians to quickly locate and analyze specific symptom-correlated rhythms without searching through entire ECG datasets, thereby reducing analysis time while maintaining comprehensive data presentation.
2Loss of information
If the information collected by the ambulatory ECG monitor is displayed in traditional formats, then the full ECG data is available for review, but the information is difficult to display in a manner useful to clinicians
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new dimensional organization to ECG data display by creating a matrix structure with symptom types as one dimension and chronological ECG events as another dimension. This multi-dimensional presentation simultaneously preserves complete ECG data while making it clinically usable through intuitive visual organization, allowing clinicians to cross-reference symptoms with corresponding rhythms efficiently.
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AI summary
A method for displaying ECG data, comprising: receiving ECG data for a patient for a first time period, comprising: (i) ECG monitoring data and (ii) a plurality of patient-perceived symptoms; generating a symptom matrix comprising a plurality of rows across a first portion and a second portion of the symptom matrix, and further comprising a plurality of columns in each of the first portion and the second portion, wherein each of the plurality of rows comprises one of the plurality of patient-perceived symptoms, and wherein each of the plurality of columns in the first portion of the symptom matrix comprises a possible patient-perceived symptom, and wherein each of the plurality of columns in the second portion of the symptom matrix comprises a possible ECG event; and displaying, via a user interface, the generated symptom matrix.