WIRELESS PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DEVICE AND SYSTEMS
The present disclosure relates to a cardiac monitoring system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments detect and record cardiac information via a wearable device, then extract data features from the recorded cardiac information. The extracted data features may then be analyzed and used in clinical diagnosis.
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5 . A wearable physiological monitoring device for monitoring physiological signals in a mammal, the device comprising:
a housing forming a watertight enclosure, the housing integral with two flexible wings extending from the housing, the flexible wings configured to adhere to the skin of the mammal;
wherein the flexible wings comprise electrodes configured to measure a physiological signal;
a processor contained within the housing, the processor configured to continuously record and extract a plurality of features from the physiological signal; and
a transmitter contained within the housing, the transmitter configured to transmit the features and a plurality of references to the locations of the features to a computing device, the computing device configured to identify a plurality of positions of identified signals from the extracted features and references.
6 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of features are extracted during an extraction window.
7 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the features comprise R peak information.
8 . The device of claim 7 , wherein the R peak information comprises R peak locations.
9 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the identified signals comprise heart rhythms requiring a clinical intervention.
10 . The device of claim 9 , wherein clinical intervention comprises one of a change in dosage regimen, a surgical procedure, and a surgical implantation.
11 . The device of claim 9 , wherein the clinical intervention comprises continuing a therapy.
12 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the computing device is a server.
13 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the positions of the identified signals are re-transmitted from the computing device to the processor.
14 . The device of claim 13 , wherein the processor is configured to read the positions of the identified signals and access an area of memory corresponding to the positions of the identified signals to infer a rhythm segment.
15 . The device of claim 14 , wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the rhythm segment.
16 . The device of claim 15 , wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the rhythm segment only if the rhythm segment meets a confidence determination, the confidence determination comprising exceeding a defined threshold.
17 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the computing device is configured to be in communication with a smartphone.
18 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the computing device is a smartphone.
19 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured to collect a secondary physiological signal and the transmitter is configured to transmit the secondary physiological signal to the computing device.
20 . The device of claim 19 , wherein the secondary physiological signal comprises a motion signal.
21 . The device of claim 19 , wherein the secondary physiological signal comprises acoustic noise
22 . The device of claim 19 , wherein the processor is further configured to collect a tertiary physiological signal.
23 . A wearable physiological monitoring device for monitoring physiological signals in a mammal, the device comprising:
a housing enclosing a monitoring circuit and electrodes configured to measure physiological signals;
a processor contained within the circuit, the processor configured to continuously record and extract a plurality of descriptive features from the physiological signals; and
a transmitter contained within the circuit, the transmitter configured to transmit the descriptive features and a plurality of references to the locations of the descriptive features to a computing device, the computing device configured to identify a plurality of positions of identified signals from the extracted features and references;
wherein the computing device is configured to transmit the positions to the transmitter; and,
wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a section of physiological signal after receiving the plurality of positions from the computing device.
24 . The device of claim 23 , wherein the processor is configured to collect a secondary physiological signal and the transmitter is configured to transmit the secondary physiological signal to the computing device.