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7616994 Fast post-antitachycardia pacing redetection algorithm  
A method comprising detecting a ventricular tachycardia heart rhythm in a patient, providing anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) therapy to the patient in response to the ventricular tachycardia heart...
7613512 Gradually synchronized simultaneous atrial and ventricular pacing for cardiac rhythm discrimination  
A cardiac medical device used for delivering anti-tachycardia pacing in both the atrial and ventricular regions in a simultaneous manner, while preventing potential of inducing atrial arrhythmia....
7603172 System and method of using regression models to estimate vulnerable periods for heart stimulation parameters  
Heart stimulator that provides for timing a premature stimulation pulse for anti-tachycardia pacing outside the vulnerable phase of a ventricle, to terminate stable ventricular tachycardia while...
7596410 Tiered antitachycardia pacing and pre-pulsing therapy  
An implantable system applies tiered antitachycardia pacing (ATP) that may be combined with pre-pulsing therapy in order to reduce pain. In one implementation, an exemplary system applies a...
7593766 Detector for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation  
A detector for atrial fibrillation and/or atrial flutter comprises an atrial input for receiving an atrial signal representing an intraatrial electrogram or a time course of an intraatrial...
7590448 Method and apparatus for prevention of atrial tachyarrhythmias  
A multi-site atrial pacemaker capable of delivering pacing pulses to one location synchronized to sensed or paced atrial depolarizations on another location and a method of its use. A defined...
7587240 Atrial capture verification  
Methods and systems for classifying cardiac responses to pacing stimulation and/or preventing retrograde cardiac conduction are described. Following delivery of a pacing pulse to an atrium of the...
7583996 Atrial overdrive pacing in non-atrial tracking mode while maintaining AV synchrony  
Heart stimulator that stimulates at least a heart's right atrium and ventricle in an atrium asynchronous stimulation mode with an overdrive stimulation rate. Interposes one resynchronization cycle...
7583995 Temporary disablement feature for implantable device with anti-tachyarrhythmia functions  
An implantable cardiac rhythm management device for delivering anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy is provided with a temporary disablement feature so that the delivery of anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy may...
7580741 Method and device for determination of arrhythmia rate zone thresholds using a probability function  
A probability function for heart rate is determined using collected and measured heart rate values. One or more heart rate probability values are selected. Thresholds for arrhythmia rate zones are...
7580740 Atrial tachyarrhythmia detection using selected atrial intervals  
Methods and systems are directed to detecting atrial tachyarrhythmia. A plurality of A-A intervals is detected. The detected A-A intervals are selected and used to detect atrial tachyarrhythmia....
7570997 Subcutaneous cardiac rhythm management with asystole prevention therapy  
Systems and methods provide for sensing of cardiac activity from a subcutaneous, non-intrathoracic location, and detecting a cardiac condition necessitating treatment in response to the sensed...
7570990 Detector for atrial fibrillation and flutter  
Atrial fibrillation or flutter detector having impedance unit, with measurement input, connected to atrial electrode line having electrode for unipolar measurement of atrium impedance and...
7567838 Method for sensing cardiac contractile function using a lead insertable motion sensor  
Systems and methods for detecting and measuring cardiac contractile function of a heart using an acceleration sensor unit inserted within the heart, such as within a vein of the cardiac wall are...
7555341 System to treat AV-conducted ventricular tachyarrhythmia  
Various aspects of the present subject matter provide devices and methods to treat AV-conducted ventricular tachyarrhythmia (AVCVT). According to various embodiments of the method, an AVCVT is...
7548783 Implantable cardiac stimulation device having a system for providing atrial therapy based on circadian variations and method  
An implantable cardiac stimulation device selects an arrhythmia therapy based upon the time of day. The device comprises an arrhythmia detector that detects an accelerated arrhythmia of a heart,...
7546160 Reduction of interaction with tachyarrhythmia detection by negative offset pacing  
A device and method is disclosed for improving tachyarrhythmia detection when the ventricles are resynchronized by delivering paces to both ventricles separated by a specified negative offset...
7546159 Subcutaneous cardiac stimulation device, system, and method providing accelerated arrhythmia detection verification and transient rate compensation  
A subcutaneous cardiac stimulation system verifies accelerated arrhythmia detection before delivering accelerated arrhythmia therapy to the heart. The stimulation system includes a verification...
7542798 System and method for treating an adverse cardiac condition using combined pacing and drug delivery  
A system and method of treating an adverse cardiac condition, such as cardiac arrhythmia or a non-arrhythmic event, involves producing, by use of a patient actuatable non-implanted activator, an...
7536224 Method for elimination of ventricular pro-arrhythmic effect caused by atrial therapy  
A system and method are provided for controlling atrial anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) delivery based on detection of ventricular pro-arrhythmia during or immediately after atrial ATP. Ventricular...
7532930 Cardiac pacemaker  
Certain embodiments of the present invention disclose an electrostimulator, in particular an atrial cardiac pacemaker, comprising electrode connections which are connected to a stimulation unit for...
7532929 Adaptive ventricular rate smoothing during atrial fibrillation  
An implantable cardiac device is provided for adaptive ventricular rate smoothing during atrial fibrillation (AF). When AF is detected, the operation of the device is switched to non-atrial...
7531810 Integrated half-beam profile measurement and polar profile for circular radiation field symmetry assessment  
A method for routine monitoring and quality assurance of field asymmetry of high energy circular radiation beam producing equipment. The quality assurance process of field symmetry for devices such...
7519421 Vagal nerve stimulation using vascular implanted devices for treatment of atrial fibrillation  
An abnormally rapid ventricular cardiac rate that results from atrial fibrillation can be reduced by stimulating a vagal nerve of the heart. An apparatus for such stimulation includes a power...
7515960 Method and apparatus to terminate ventricular tachycardia via pacing  
An implantable device for terminating ventricular tachycardia is disclosed. The device includes a processor configured to determine a first antitachycardia pulse routine of N pulses. In the routine...
7515959 Delivery of CRT therapy during AT/AF termination  
In some embodiments, a method for operating a cardiac rhythm management device may include one or more of the following steps: (a) sensing atrial depolarizations through an implanted atrial...
7509168 Cardiac stimulation device and method providing pacemaker mediated tachycardia detection during biventricular pacing stimulation  
An implantable cardiac stimulation device provides biventricular pacing and pacemaker mediated tachycardia (PMT) detection. The device includes a pulse generator that provides right ventricular and...
7496402 ATP pacing with entrainment monitoring  
A method and system for delivering anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) is disclosed. During delivery of an ATP burst, an implantable cardiac rhythm management device is programmed to sense evoked...
7477942 ATP therapy for tachyarrhythmias in VF zone  
A method and apparatus for delivering therapy to treat ventricular tachyarrhythmias is described. A ventricular tachyarrhythmia can be classified into tachycardia or fibrillation zones using a rate...
7477935 Method and apparatus for beat alignment and comparison  
Methods of using a template having a template data set and template parameters to provide improved alignment of captured cardiac signal data to a stored template. More particularly, in an...
7474921 Adjustable overdrive pacing  
An exemplary method includes providing an overdrive pacing rate and, determining an incidence limit for incidence of intrinsic atrial activity events, as well as the incidence of intrinsic atrial...
7471982 Ventricular tachyarrhythmia prediction and/or prevention  
Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods to predict and/or prevent episodes of ventricular tachyarrhythmia (for example, ventricular tachycardia and/or ventricular...
7454044 Volume visualization using tissue mix  
A method is presented to calculate the relative contribution of different tissues, or tissue mix, to at least one data element in a medical object data set, the medical object data set containing...
7440799 Therapy-selection methods for implantable heart monitors  
Miniature heart-monitoring devices, such as defibrillators and cardioverters, are implanted in humans to detect and correct abnormal heart rhythms Microprocessors and stored instructions, or...
7424323 Implantable cardiac stimulation device providing autocapture with PMT avoidance and method  
An implantable cardiac stimulation device prevents pacemaker mediated tachycardias during autocapture. The device includes a refractory circuit that establishes a lengthened post ventricular atrial...
7421294 System and method for preventing recurrence of atrial tachyarrhythmia  
A system and method for providing pacing pulses after a cardioversion/defibrillation shock, where the pacing pulses have a pacing rate at an initial value. The pacing rate is decreased from the...
7398123 Methods and devices for reducing the detection of inappropriate physiologic signals to reduce misdiagnosis of normal rhythms as tachyarrhythmias  
Various embodiments can reduce mode switching in response to inappropriate but anticipated signals, such as far field R-waves. Additionally, various embodiments can also increase the alert period...
7392082 Inter-episode implementation of closed loop ATP  
Improved methods and apparatus for providing optimal anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) regimens in response to the return cycle length (RCL) exhibited by an exploratory ATP sequence initially applied...
7386343 Spectrum-driven arrhythmia treatment method  
A method and apparatus for treating an arrhythmia is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) sensing at least one electrical signal from the patient's heart; (b) calculating a frequency...
7376461 Dynamic mode switch for early detection of tachyarrhythmia  
An algorithm executed in an implantable cardiac rhythm management device (CRMD) automatically adjusts the time that an atrial pace (AP) and/or a ventricular pace (VP) pulse is generated by a pulse...
7353062 Post-shock recovery monitoring for tachyarrhythmia discrimination  
A cardiac rhythm management device is configured to discriminate between ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias (referred to as SVT/VT discrimination) by utilizing a morphology criterion in...
7346393 Implantable cardiac rhythm management system having multiple therapy modalities  
A cardiac rhythm management system for providing a plurality of therapy modalities. For example, the system may include a cardiac resynchronization therapy module for providing cardiac...
7346388 Method and apparatus for rate accuracy enhancement in ventricular tachycardia detection  
An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) executes a rate accuracy enhancement algorithm to select measured atrial and ventricular intervals for classifying a detected tachycardia based on...
7336997 Heart treatment equipment and heart treatment method  
Heart treatment equipment and a heart treatment method directed to prevention of a fatal arrhythmia by detecting a physical exercise or a mental stress by using a sensor and thereafter controlling...
7317942 Dynamic discrimination utilizing anti-tachy pacing therapy in an implantable medical device  
A method and medical device for discriminating an arrhythmia that includes an input circuit sensing cardiac signals and a microprocessor identifying an event associated with the sensed cardiac...
7313438 Selective chamber ATP pacing  
A method and system for delivering anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) is disclosed. By comparing the time intervals between senses from both ventricles, the origin of a ventricular tachyarrhythmia may...
7313436 Configurable cardioversion and defibrillation therapies in the presence of coexisting atrial and ventricular arrhythmia  
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator system and method are provided having configurable shock therapies selected based on an evaluation of the atrial rhythm status following a ventricular...
7308308 Method to monitor progression of atrial fibrillation and to detect its susceptibility for termination  
A method and apparatus for monitoring a patient's cardiac electrical activity is disclosed. The method includes determining a characteristic of the cardiac signals during a detected episode of...
7295873 Anti-tachycardia pacing method and apparatus for multi-chamber pacing  
Improved methods and devices perform tachycardia detection and anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) to convert a tachycardia (e.g., VT or AT) to normal sinus rhythm. According to one embodiment, an...
7289847 Implantable cardiac device and method of treating atrial fibrillation  
An apparatus and method of treating atrial fibrillation (AF) are provided. The apparatus includes means for detecting AF in a heart of a patient, means for classifying the AF as one of a plurality...
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