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8185195 Arrhythmia classification and therapy selection  
Different types of cardiac arrhythmia are classified based on the morphology of the arrhythmic beats. Cardiac beats associated with an arrhythmic episode are compared to a plurality of...
8180457 System for cardiac resuscitation  
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,...
8175701 System and method for testing neural stimulation threshold  
Various system embodiments comprise a neural stimulator, a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) event detector, a heart rate detector, an analyzer, and a controller. The neural stimulator is...
8170663 Method and apparatus to control delivery of high-voltage and anti-tachy pacing therapy in an implantable medical device  
A system and method for delivering both anti-tachy pacing (ATP) therapy and high-voltage shock therapy in response to detection of abnormal cardiac rhythms is disclosed. The system controls the...
8170662 Method and apparatus for charging partitioned capacitors  
One aspect of this disclosure relates to an apparatus for providing a selective capacitance. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a first and second capacitor in a stack, and a switching circuit...
8165673 Devices, systems and methods for characterization of ventricular fibrillation and for treatment of ventricular fibrillation  
A defibrillation system for use in treatment of ventricular fibrillation includes at least one sensor to measure heart rhythm; at least one applicator to apply a defibrillation pulse to a patient;...
8165671 Automatic therapy advisor  
A method of automatically determining which type of treatment is most appropriate for (or the physiological state of) a patient. The method comprises transforming one or more time domain...
8160698 CPR sensitive ECG analysis in an automatic external defibrillator  
An automatic external defibrillator including: a sensor for detecting when a rescuer is delivering a CPR chest compression to the patient; electrodes for application to the thorax of the patient...
8155740 Constant current pacing apparatus and pacing method  
A constant current pacing apparatus and method for pacing uses, for example, H-bridge circuitry and a constant current source connected to the H-bridge circuitry.
8150509 Systems and methods for drug therapy enhancement using expected pharmacodynamic models  
A system or method including a device configured to measure at least one pharmacological effect of a drug on a patient. The measured pharmacological effect is compared to an expected...
8140153 Cardiac tachyarrhythmia therapy selection based on patient response information  
Cardiac treatment methods and devices providing templates representative of past tachyarrhythmia events, each template associated with a therapy. A cardiac waveform is detected, and if it...
8133860 Facilitation of resuscitation from cardiac arrest by erythropoietin  
The present invention relates generally to the use of erythropoietin (EPO) to facilitate resuscitation from cardiac arrest. For a mammalian subject suffering from cardiac arrest, concurrent...
8135459 Unitary subcutaneous only implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and optional pacer  
A unitary subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator which has a long thin housing in the shape of a patient's rib. The housing contains a source of electrical energy, a capacitor, and...
8131361 System and method for setting atrioventricular pacing delays based on far-field atrial signals  
An intrinsic inter-atrial conduction delay is determined by a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator based, at least in part, on far-field atrial events sensed using ventricular...
8131359 System and method to deliver therapy in presence of another therapy  
Various aspects relate to a method. In various embodiments, a therapy of a first therapy type is delivered, and it is identified whether a therapy of a second therapy type is present to affect the...
8131360 Method and apparatus for anti-tachycardia pacing and defibrillation  
An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) includes an Anti-Tachycardia Pacing Before Charge (ATP-BC) mode according to which one or more high-voltage capacitors for storing defibrillation...
8123668 Signal transmitting and lesion excluding heart implants for pacing defibrillating and/or sensing of heart beat  
Devices, systems, and methods for treating a heart of a patient may make use of structures which limit a size of a chamber of the heart, such as by deploying a tensile member to bring a wall of the...
8121680 Subcutaneous cardiac stimulation device providing anti-tachycardia pacing therapy and method  
An implantable subcutaneous cardiac device includes at least two subcutaneous electrodes adapted for placement external to a heart beneath the skin of a patient. The device further includes an...
8096962 Method of determining depth of chest compressions during CPR  
A method of processing a raw acceleration signal, measured by an accelerometer-based compression monitor, to produce an accurate and precise estimated actual depth of chest compressions. The raw...
8096954 Adaptive sampling of heart sounds  
A system and method to sense heart sounds with one or more implantable medical devices according to one or more parameters. The system alters one or more of the parameters as a function of one or...
8099164 Selectively implementable digital signal processing circuit for an implantable medical device  
Embodiments of the invention include an implantable medical device having a digital signal processing circuit associated with an implantable medical device function. The digital signal processing...
8095215 Multipolar guide wire and electrode line  
Electrode arrangement for an electrical stimulation device, having electrode line (10) with electrical connection at proximal end of electrode line and with plurality of conductive surface areas...
8086310 Power supply monitoring for an implantable device  
A method and an apparatus for projecting an end of service (EOS) and/or an elective replacement indication (ERI) of a component in an implantable device and for determining an impedance experienced...
8078279 Intravascular medical device  
An implantable medical device is configured so that all of the major components including a housing and attached leads are disposed within the vasculature of a patient. A tether extends from the...
8077944 Method, device, and computer programme for evaluating images of a cavity  
The invention relates to a device, a method and a computer program for evaluating images of the heart that have been captured by means of a medical imaging method. According to said method, at...
8073536 Method and apparatus for post-processing of episodes detected by a medical device  
A method and system for determining undersensing during post-processing of sensing data generated by a medical device that includes transmitting a plurality of stored sensing data generated by the...
8055340 Method and device for comprehensive anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy  
A method and apparatus for delivering therapy to treat ventricular tachyarrhythmias is described. In one embodiment, neural stimulation, anti-tachycardia pacing, and shock therapy are employed in a...
8046061 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...
8046062 Post-shock management of implantable cardiac device features  
Systems and methods of managing features or functions of an implantable cardiac device involve forming a baseline evoked response template prior to delivery of defibrillation therapy to a patient's...
8046064 Method of delivering PESP/ICC as well as adjusting the refractory period of the heart  
Medical devices and methods are used to treat cardiac dysfunction conditions which involve delivery of stimulation pulses in cardiac refractory periods in order to modulate an effective refractory...
8038617 Mobile defibrillator  
The invention relates to a mobile defibrillator which has a housing. In order to improve the diagnostic reliability, particularly in the case of irregular heart rhythms and myocardial infarctions,...
8041423 System and method for testing neural stimulation threshold  
Various system embodiments comprise a neural stimulator, a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) event detector, a heart rate detector, an analyzer, and a controller. The neural stimulator is...
8036742 Apparatus and methods for fibrillation and defibrillation  
The invention is directed to techniques for attempting to restore a patient to a normal sinus rhythm. In a patient experiencing asystole or pulseless electrical activity, defibrillation therapy may...
8036744 Cardiac rhythm management system with defibrillation threshold prediction  
A cardiac rhythm management device predicts defibrillation thresholds without any need to apply defibrillation shocks or subjecting the patient to fibrillation. Intravascular defibrillation...
8032227 Method for controlling telemetry in an implantable medical device based on power source capacity  
An implantable microstimulator configured for implantation beneath a patient's skin for tissue stimulation to prevent and/or treat various disorders, uses a self-contained power source. Periodic or...
8024031 Device, method and computer-readable storage medium for classifying atrial tachyarrhythmia  
Device for classifying tachyarrhythmia that obtains pre-defined values, monitors atrial intervals and compares lengths of each interval with pre-defined value IL, stores length of atrial interval...
8019415 Cardiac stimulator with stimulation success monitoring  
An implantable cardiac stimulator having an at least partially electrically conductive housing, a ventricular stimulation unit connectable to left ventricular or right ventricular stimulation...
8010190 CPR feedback method and apparatus  
The present invention comprises a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) feedback device and a method for performing CPR. A chest compression detector device is provided that measures chest...
8005545 Parasympathetic stimulation for prevention and treatment of atrial fibrillation  
A method is provided, including identifying that a subject is at risk of suffering from atrial fibrillation (AF). Responsively to the identifying, a risk of an occurrence of an episode of the AF is...
8005542 Therapeutic maintenance of atrial fibrillation by electrical stimulation  
Apparatus for treating a subject suffering from spontaneous atrial fibrillation includes an electrode device, adapted to be coupled to a vagus nerve of the subject, and a control unit, adapted to...
8000788 Implantable medical device for treating neurological conditions including ECG sensing  
An implantable medical device such as an implantable pulse generator that includes EEG sensing for monitoring and treating neurological conditions, and leadless ECG sensing for monitoring cardiac...
7996081 Resuscitation device with expert system  
A resuscitation device for automatic compression of victim's chest using a compression belt which exerts force evenly over the entire thoracic cavity. The belt is constricted and relaxed through a...
7996072 Positionally adaptable implantable cardiac device  
Cardiac sensing and/or stimulation devices and methods that adapt to implant location and positioning, and may employ automated vector selection from multiple electrodes. Devices include a housing...
7991467 Remotely enabled pacemaker and implantable subcutaneous cardioverter/defibrillator system  
Subcutaneous Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (SubQ ICDs) are disclosed that are entirely implantable subcutaneously with minimal surgical intrusion into the body of the patient and provide...
7983752 Antitachycardiac stimulator  
Implantable cardiac stimulator, with chamber stimulation unit connectable to left/right ventricular stimulation electrode to generate/deliver chamber stimulation pulses for stimulation of...
7979122 Implantable sudden cardiac death prevention device with reduced programmable feature set  
Preventing sudden cardiac death involves providing an implantable device configured to deliver only two forms of cardiac therapy, the two forms of cardiac therapy including an anti-tachyarrhythmia...
7979120 Method and apparatus for solid state pulse therapy capacitor  
One embodiment includes an apparatus that includes an implantable device housing, a capacitor disposed in the implantable device housing, the capacitor including a dielectric comprising CaCu3Ti4O12...
7970463 Anti-tachyarrhythmia system with unified atrial tachyarrhythmia rate threshold  
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system includes an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and an external system. The ICD includes a plurality of functional modules performing...
7970464 Method and system for responding to non-perfusing and non-shockable heart rhythms  
A system and method are disclosed for prompting emergency medical personnel who are attending to a patient. When the patient presents a heart rhythm that is a non-perfusing and non-shockable rhythm...
7962210 Implantable medical device with voice responding and recording capacity  
An implantable medical device such as a cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with the capability of receiving communications in the form of speech spoken by the patient. An...
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