SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND PRESENTING ARRHYTHMIA INFORMATION TO FACILITATE HEART ARRHYTHMIA IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT

A method and apparatus involve steps and structure for identifying atrial fibrillation events in physiological data obtained for a living being, obtaining heart rate data for the living being and pictographically presenting information regarding heart rate data. Pictographically presenting this information involves using a common time scale to display the information regarding the heart rate data for multiple time intervals in average beats--per-minute. The information includes information regarding standard deviation of heart rate for each of the multiple time intervals during a defined time period and regarding duration of atrial fibrillation activity according to the identified atrial fibrillation events, during the defined time period such that heart rate trend is presented with atria] fibrillation burden.