Medical examination apparatus

Abstract

An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument displays an EKG tracing on its screen simultaneously upon auscultation of the heart. The abdomen may also be investigated by displaying a sonogram. Wireless broadband technology may provide a closed circuit interface for real-time wireless transmission of acquired data. Examination requires none of a multiplicity of wires to untangle, bulky machines or a technician to be summoned. Regurgitation, heart size, ischemia and heart murmurs can all be evaluated by a visual and auditory methods.

1 . An arrangement for placing electrodes on a living body for receiving electrical signals from the body, said arrangement comprising a plurality of cords, said cords each having a bundle of wires, each wire being configured at its end for an electrode for acquiring an electrical signal from said body, a first of said cords being configured so that respective electrodes associated with said first cord receive signal from a first side of the body, and a second of said cords being configured so that respective electrodes associated with said second cord receive signal from a second side of the body.  
   
   
       2 . An arrangement for placing electrodes on a living body for receiving electrical signals from the body, said arrangement comprising a plurality of cords, said cords each having a bundle of wires, each wire being configured at its end for an electrode for acquiring an electrical signal from said body, wherein said plurality comprises three cords, a first of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving signal from both arms, a second of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving precordial electrodes, and a third one of said cords having associated electrodes for receiving signals from the both legs.