APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND PROCESSING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS AND AUTOMATIC METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

An apparatus for measuring and processing physiological signals and an automatic method therefor are disclosed. The preferably portable apparatus is characterised in that it mainly consists of devices for continuously acquiring (3, 3'), shaping (4, 4') and digitising (5) at least one electrocardiographic signal and a signal representative of changes in the impedance of a predetermined volume (V) in the body (6) of a patient, as well as a digital preprocessing unit (7) interacting with a controller (8), a display (9) and a removable device (10) for storing digitised signals or values derived from significant parameters. The apparatus further consists of a central digital processing device (12) for collecting and storing successive transfers of data from the storage device (10), and comparing said data.