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A cardiac monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of patients including a plurality of patient-worn units and one or more office units. A patient unit detects a patient\s EKG and analyzes the EKG in real time (during the patient\s R-R interval). It provides morphology analysis, heart rate data,

A cardiac monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of patients including a plurality of patient-worn units and one or more office units. A patient unit detects a patient\s EKG and analyzes the EKG in real time (during the patient\s R-R interval). It provides morphology analysis, heart rate data, ST segment analysis, symptomatic and asymptomatic event recordings, and the counting of ectopic runs. The analyzed data is sent over a standard voice-grade telephone line or other suitable communication channel to an office which prepares a patient report for a physician. In addition, the office unit provides an interactive scheme by which various alarm and recording criteria are established for a particular patient at the time of hook-up. Also, the office unit automatically communicates with the physician under predetermined emergency circumstances so that a patient can get medical attention with a minimun time delay.

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A cardiac monitoring system for monitoring an ambulatory patient, comprising: a cardiac monitoring patient unit for the ambulatory patient comprising: means operatively connectable with a patient\s body for providing an EKG signal indicative of electrical activity associated with a patient\s heart a

A cardiac monitoring system for monitoring an ambulatory patient, comprising: a cardiac monitoring patient unit for the ambulatory patient comprising: means operatively connectable with a patient\s body for providing an EKG signal indicative of electrical activity associated with a patient\s heart action; means for sampling the EKG signal provided by the EKG signal providing means to provide a plurality of EKG signal samples; signal processing means for analyzing the EKG signal samples in real time and according to predetermined criteria and generating, as a result of that analysis, processed data including a plurality of cardiac events and statistics related to all heartbeats occurring during a predetermined monitoring period, for inclusion in at least a portion of corresponding patient report intelligible to a person skilled in coronary care; memory means for storing the processed data generated by the signal processing means; portable housing means, suitable for being worn or carried out by the patient, containing the sampling means, signal processing means and memory means; patient actuable transmitting means for causing data including the processed data stored in the memory means to be read from the memory means and to be transmitted over a communication channel; and office unit means for cooperative use with said patient unit, said office unit means having means for automatically and without the necessity of any human operator, receiving the processed data via the communication channel, means for automatically and without the necessity of any human operator comparing the processed data with predetermined medical personnel notification criteria, and means for automatically and without the necessity of any human operator notifying medical personnel if the predetermined medical personnel notification criteria is satisfied so that the medical personnel can intervene in an appropriate medical situation, said office unit means including means for preparing the corresponding patient report based upon the received processed data.