摘要 |
An implantable cardioverter, especially defibrillator, having a morphology detector (3) to measure and evaluate EKG signals for the purpose of discriminating between different tachycardia conditions of the heart. The morphology detector (3) having a signal width detector, by which the respective width of the EKG signal between every two successive crossings through the isoelectrical line of the EKG can be measured; a threshold value discriminator to determine whether the EKG signal between two such successive crossings exceeds a defined threshold value; and a comparator for the signal width, coupled to the signal width detector and the threshold value discriminator. The morphology detector compares the respective current signal width value selected by the threshold value discriminator and measures by signal width detector to a pre-set selection parameter to differentiate between two different conditions of tachycardia.
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