MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A measuring device for attaching to the human body includes a number of ECG electrodes (14,16) supported on a deformable bridge (18) with a strain sensor (20). The unit can be attached to the upper body of a patient, for example with one electrode (14) on the sternum and the other (16) on the abdomen, and the strain sensor used to measure respiration using the electrodes as purely mechanical couplings whilst the electrodes are used at the same time to measure the electrical excitation of the heart, which is the ECG.