METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTIPHASIC DEFIBRILLATION WAVEFORMS BASED ON PULSE WIDTH RATIOS

摘要

A method and apparatus for generating a multiphasic defibrillation/cardioversion waveform. The multiphasic defibrillation/cardioversion waveform is generated by specifying only the initial voltage and end voltage of the first phase and the percentage of time duration of each subsequent phase relative to the time duration of the first phase. Therefore, only two voltage measurements need to be made for the first phase, while for the remaining phases, only the time duration is detected.