Computerized mapping of acute myocardial infarction

This paper describes an ECG analysing system, which simultaneously analyses six different ECG leads of patients with acute myocardial infarction (tissue which is dying because the blood supply has been cut off). Three characteristic ECG features (height of the R-spike, existence of a Q-spike and the ST-segment elevation) are measured, and their means over time intervals, the length of which can be chosen at the beginning of the measurement, are computed and printed. The analyser works online, therefore the measuring period is not limited.