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7590447 Pacing system analyzer having three sensing and pacing channels  
A pacing system analyzer (PSA) having three or more individually controllable sensing and pacing channels provides for testing and measurement during an operation for implanting a pacemaker having...
7389138 Electrode placement determination for subcutaneous cardiac monitoring and therapy  
Methods and devices of cardiac electrode placement involve locating electrodes on a thorax of a patient. Surface pacing levels are determined relative to a pacing limit. Surface electrode locations...
7386345 Apparatus and method for temporary treatment of acute heart failure decompensation  
A system for providing temporary therapy, such as cardiac resynchronization therapy, to a patient suffering a decompensation event. The system can include a device having an external module for...
7373207 Treatments for a patient with congestive heart failure  
The invention is directed to devices for two minimally invasive therapeutic procedures, particularly for patients with congestive heart failure. One procedure involves providing a valve to form a...
7277752 System for cardiac resuscitation  
A system and method for monitoring and controlling the therapy of a cardiac rhythm abnormality victim at a remote site by proving immediate access to a medical professional at a central station....
7269457 Method and system for vagal nerve stimulation with multi-site cardiac pacing  
A method of performing a medical procedure is provided. The medical procedure includes stimulation of a patient's heart while stimulating a nerve of the patient in order to modulate the patient's...
7204846 Beauty device  
A beauty device includes a light irradiation section that irradiates light of a predetermined wavelength, and an ion generating section that generates an ion. The light irradiation section is...
7130699 Medical lead adaptor assembly  
A medical lead adapter assembly is provided for facilitating an electrical connection between an implantable medical lead connector and an external medical device. The adapter includes a housing,...
7113830 Therapeutic device and method for treating diseases of cardiac muscle  
An apparatus and method for conferring a therapeutic current on the heart and adjacent vasculature from externally positioned electrodes is provided. The apparatus includes a first electrode, a...
7047071 Patient stratification for implantable subcutaneous cardiac monitoring and therapy  
Systems and methods of verifying that implantable cardiac devices operate as intended in a particular patient involve one or more of determining proper placement of system components, determining...
7010350 Temporary biventricular pacing of heart after heart surgery  
Apparatus is disclosed for providing a practitioner the ability to switch from one cardiac pacing mode to another cardiac pacing mode when treating a patient suffering from heart failure due to...
7010345 Method and apparatus to minimize effects of a cardiac insult  
A method and apparatus are provided for protecting cardiac tissue from insult. The method comprises identifying the occurrence of an insult, such as a heart attack, and delivering electrical...
6980856 Circuit for performing external pacing and biphasic defibrillation  
An external defibrillator/pacer includes an output circuit with four legs arrayed to form an H-bridge. Each leg of the output circuit contains a switch. In a defibrillation mode, pairs of switches...
6904318 Method and system for monitoring and controlling systemic and pulmonary circulation during a medical procedure  
A method of performing a medical procedure, such as surgery, is provided. The system comprises a sensor to sense a biological characteristic, such as a chemical, physical or physiological...
6560484 Method and apparatus for electrically forcing cardiac output in an arrhythmia patient  
An electrical method and apparatus for stimulating cardiac cells causing contraction to force hemodynamic output during fibrillation, hemodynamically compromising tachycardia, or asystole. Forcing...
6141589 Switch control for external pacing system  
Methods are provided for conducting surgical procedures in a patient wherein, during the surgical procedure, autonomous ventricular electrical conductivity and escape beats are reversibly and...
6127410 Compositions, apparatus and methods for facilitating surgical procedures  
Methods are provided for conducting surgical procedures in a patient wherein, during the surgical procedure, autonomous ventricular electrical conductivity and escape beats are reversibly and...
6006138 Non-invasive cardiac pacing  
Device and method for effecting ventricular cardiac pacing by inserting electrodes which are supported by a carrier into the stomach of a patient via the patient's esophagus, and pressing the...
5843132 Self-contained, self-powered temporary intravenous pacing catheter assembly  
A self-powered, self-contained, intravenous pacing catheter assembly for use in temporary intravenous cardiac pacing therapy, wherein all components of the assembly may be operated and maintained...
5782892 Medical lead adaptor for external medical device  
A medical lead adaptor that provides a rapid, secure, insulated connection of the lead connector end assembly of one or more implantable cardiac lead with an external medical device is disclosed....
5782882 System and method for administering transcutaneous cardiac pacing with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation  
A transcutaneous cardiac pacing system has one or more cutaneous electrodes suitable for attachment to a human patient and a transcutaneous pacing system coupled to supply pacing pulses to the...
5755763 Pacemaker connector with sealable access openings and methods for its use  
A pacemaker lead is disclosed of the type comprising a flexible cord formed of at least one spiralled electric conductor and surrounded by a sheath of insulating material and connected, at a...
RE35779 Post-heart surgery cardioverting system and method  
A post-surgical cardioverting system and method applies cardioverting electrical energy to the atria of the heart of a post-surgical heart patient. The system includes a first lead including a...
5662691 System and method for implanting an implantable cardiac device  
A system for use in implanting an implantable cardiac device includes an external device operable to emulate the operation of the implantable cardiac device in accordance with a set of modality and...
5651378 Method of using vagal nerve stimulation in surgery  
The invention comprises a method for facilitating coronary surgery on the beating heart wherein the vagal nerve is electrically stimulated to temporarily stop or substantially reduce the beating of...
5626621 Dual chamber, multi-mode external pacemaker  
One embodiment of the present invention is a mode switching method and apparatus for an external, dual chamber cardiac pacemaker having multiple single chamber and dual chamber primary pacing modes...
5593428 Emergency external cardiac defibrillator and pacing method and apparatus  
An emergency external defibrillator and pacing apparatus for applying electrical stimulation to a heart. The apparatus includes a tubular sleeve having an axial passage therethrough, which is...
5431688 Method and apparatus for transcutaneous electrical cardiac pacing  
Method and apparatus for transcutaneously pacing the heart using two or more pairs of electrodes to reduce patient discomfort during pacing. The pacing stimuli are divided into two or more series...
5387232 Method and apparatus for esophageal pacing  
A method and apparatus for emergency pacing of a surgical patient's heart through an esophageal catheter. Pacing electrodes are connected to the external wall of the catheter having sufficient...
5356427 Catheter for temporary pacing and pacemaker  
A temporary pacing catheter having an integrally attached temporary pacemaker function is disclosed. The pacemaker integrally built in this catheter for temporary pacing has a very small size and...
5330506 Reduced current cardiac pacing apparatus  
A cardiac pacing apparatus and method. A cardiac pacing apparatus (24) provides a cardiac pacing signal to a plurality of electrode pairs (20, 22), each comprising a positive electrode (20a, 22a)...
5304209 Remote-control temporary pacemaker  
A temporary pacemaker combines technologies of the implantable pacemaker, the waterproof watch, with a separate remote-control programming unit that communicates with the pacemaker via IR...
5282843 Electrodes and method for transcutaneous cardiac pacing  
Method and apparatus for transcutaneously pacing the heart with background stimuli occurring in the intervals between pacing stimuli to reduce patient discomfort during pacing, and including...
5243977 Pacemaker  
The pacemaker includes a casing housing a pulse generator having at least one electrode tip preferably projecting out of said casing and being insulated therefrom, whereby no plug-receptacle nor...
5191885 Method of terminating an arrhythmia  
A single use disposable esophageal electrode structure is formed with a planar sheet body member. The body member carries a plurality of spaced-apart conductive electrode members. A temperature...
5154169 Pacing unit with catheter holder  
A pacing unit is disclosed. The pacing unit incorporates a catheter with pacing electrodes and leads extending from the pacing electrodes through the body of the catheter, a catheter holder for...
5109851 Multiple electrode affixable sheet  
A single use disposable esophageal electrode structure is formed with a planar sheet body member. The body member carries a plurality of spaced-apart conductive electrode members. A layer of...
5099839 Catheter for temporary pacing  
A temporary pacing catheter having an integrally attached temporary pacemaker function is disclosed. The pacemaker integrally built in this catheter for temporary pacing has a very small size and...
5078134 Portable device for sensing cardiac function and automatically delivering electrical therapy  
A patient-worn harness or vest protects at-risk patients from the possibly fatal results of heart arrhythmias. The harness or vest incorporates sensing electrodes for monitoring heart condition, a...
5050600 Cardiac pacemaker  
A battery-powered pacemaker includes an electrical pulse generating device enclosed in a portable case. The pulse generating device is connected to a disposable electrode insertion unit that can...
5044367 Method and apparatus for switching cardiac stimulation signals  
Cardiac stimulation signals are routed through a switching network to select only one cardiac stimulation signal as an output signal. The selected output signal may be routed to one of two patient...
5024221 Programmable band-pass amplifier for use with implantable medical device  
A switched-capacitor, band-pass, programmable amplifier is used as a sense amplifier in an implantable cardiac pacemaker. Switching means are used to switchably connect various capacitors to the...
5018522 Ramped waveform non-invasive pacemaker  
A non-invasive electrical stimulator for pacing the heart. The stimulator generates a ramped current waveform which reduces muscle stimulation and pain associated with external stimulation of the...
5012806 Implantations for cardiac stimulation by pacemaker  
Implantation for cardiac stimulation by pacemaker including also a radio-frequency receiver for alternative cardiac stimulation by means of an external pacemaker and a radio-frequency transmitter;...
4585001 Cardiac pacer signal detector  
A battery powered external pacer operable in fixed-rate and demand modes includes a sense amplifier having an active notch filter system for attenuating power line interference. The filter system...
4585006 Cardiac pacer having stimulation threshold measurement circuit  
An external pacer having a plurality of user-selectable output current levels includes a user-actuable push button switch for reducing the selected output current level by a factor of 10. By...
4577633 Rate scanning demand pacemaker and method for treatment of tachycardia  
A self-adapting demand pacemaker that recognizes the tachycardia from the intrinsic signals and initiates treatment in the following manner: First, the escape interval of the demand pacemaker is...
4545381 Adapter for converting a metal encapsulated implantable cardiac pacer to an externally worn cardiac pacer  
The adapter is adapted to convert a metal encapsulated device, such as an implantable cardiac pacer to an externally worn cardiac pacer whereby a physician can try various pacers before selecting...
4349030 External noninvasive electric cardiac stimulation  
Reducing pain from external noninvasive electric cardiac stimulation through the use of electrodes with large-surface, non-metallic, skin-contacting members providing low current density, and also...
4347849 Cardiac pacer having quick-connect lead terminals  
A connector system for use with external cardiac pacers provides an electrical connection to an associated pacer lead assembly. The system includes a pair of terminal blocks each having a bore for...
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