Until about 2003, the only available portion of the AHA database consisted of 80 two-channel excerpts of analog ambulatory ECG recordings, digitized at 250 Hz per channel with 12-bit resolution over a 10 mV range. These 80 recordings, designated as the development set or series 1, are divided into eight classes of ten recordings each, according to the highest level of ventricular ectopy present:
- no ventricular ectopy (records 1001 through 1010)
- isolated unifocal PVCs (records 2001 through 2010)
- isolated multifocal PVCs (records 3001 through 3010)
- ventricular bi- and trigeminy (records 4001 through 4010)
- R-on-T PVCs (records 5001 through 5010)
- ventricular couplets (records 6001 through 6010)
- vent