The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 73, 583-588, Copyright © 1977 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Signal enhancement for detection of specialized atrioventricular conduction system electrograms during open-heart surgery
J Schatz, S Ross, E Krongrad, FO Bowman Jr, JR Malm and BF Hoffman
A method for signal enhancement of electrograms of the specialized
atrioventricular conduction system is presented. This method allows a
single electrogram to replace the tracings of bipolar electrograms
previously required to ensure recognition of the specialezed conduction
system and yet maintains the safety afforded by use of three pairs of
recording electrodes. In addition, this new signal is enhanced in magnitude
and is always unidirectional (positive). These features are desirable for
automated signal recognition. This method therefore provides an important
step toward future automation and signal recognition of specialized
conduction system electrograms during open- heart surgery.