Patent attributes
System and method for monitoring and controlling, defibrillation and pacing which allows a victim of a cardiac rhythm abnormality immediate access to a medical professional at a central station, who will remotely monitor, diagnose and treat the victim at one of a plurality of remote sites in accordance with the following steps:(1) providing a plurality of contact electrodes for a victim at a remote site for the receipt of ECG signals and for the application of electrical pulses to the victim;(2) transmitting the signals from the remote site to a central station and displaying them for review by the medical professional;(3) the medical professional selecting from a menu of defibrillation and pacing pulses, if the application thereof is appropriate;(4) transmitting the selection results to the remote site; and(5) receiving the selection results at the remote site and applying the selected pulses to the victim.
