摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/GB95/01326 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 5, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 5, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/33517 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 14, 1995Apparatus for monitoring cardiac contractility comprises a catheter having a tip for insertion into the ventricle of the heart muscle. At or proximate the tip is an acceleration transducer responsive to the natural, multi-directional heart acceleration to provide an acceleration signal to a signal processor. The apparatus is arranged to suppress frequencies outside the range approximately 15 Hz to approximately 100 Hz. |