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8185196 |
PCB blade connector system and method
The connector between the patient electrode pads and the base unit of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) system can be formed by capturing a printed circuit board (PCB) within a connector...
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8185197 |
Identifying the usage status of a defibrillation pad assembly
The connector between the patient electrode pads and the base unit of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) system can be formed by capturing a printed circuit board (PCB) within a connector...
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8183823 |
Selective powering of medical device depending on authentication of power adapter system
In an embodiment, a medical device can be used with a power adapter system. In addition, it can receive a data set from the power adapter system, and examine the data set to determine whether the...
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8185198 |
Method and devices for performing cardiac waveform appraisal
Implementations of various technologies described herein are directed toward a sensing architecture for use in cardiac rhythm management devices. The sensing architecture may provide a method and...
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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,...
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8179087 |
Selective recharging of medical device depending on authentication of power adapter system
In an embodiment, a medical device can be used with a power adapter system. In addition, it can receive a data set from the power adapter system, and examine the data set to determine whether the...
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8174818 |
Method for a capacitor with a flexible interconnect
The present subject matter includes a first capacitor stack including a first plurality of anode layers and a first plurality of cathode layers and a second capacitor stack including a second...
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8175702 |
Method for low-voltage termination of cardiac arrhythmias by effectively unpinning anatomical reentries
A method for extinguishing a cardiac arrhythmia utilizes destructive interference of the passing of the reentry wave tip of an anatomical reentry through a depolarized region created by a...
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8170689 |
Implantable cardiac defibrillation system with defibrillation electrode entrapment prevention and method
An implantable cardiac defibrillation device diminishes fibrosis of a defibrillation electrode. The device includes an implantable lead having a defibrillation electrode adapted for implant in one...
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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...
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8165672 |
Therapeutic method with pain relief
A desired effect is produced by therapeutically activating tissue at a first site within a patient's body and a corresponding undesired side effect is reduced by blocking activation of tissue or...
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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;...
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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...
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8160699 |
Cardioverter-defibrillator having a focused shocking area and orientation thereof
One embodiment of the present invention provides an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for subcutaneous positioning between the third rib and the twelfth rib within a patient, the implantable...
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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...
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8160697 |
Method for adapting charge initiation for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Adaptive methods for initiating charging of the high power capacitors of an implantable medical device for therapy delivery after the patient experiences a non-sustained arrhythmia. The adaptive...
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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.
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8145300 |
Simplified biphasic defibrillator circuit with make-only switching
A biphasic pulse delivery circuit for a defibrillator includes two capacitors, a first one of which is charged and delivers the first phase of the biphasic pulse and a second one of which is...
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8145301 |
Blending cardiac rhythm detection processes
Systems and methods are described for classifying a cardiac rhythm. A cardiac rhythm is classified using a classification process that includes a plurality of cardiac rhythm discriminators. Each...
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8145302 |
Method and system to estimate defibrillation thresholds
A method and system are provided to determine a defibrillation threshold (DFT). The method and system determine local conduction (LC) information for at least one LV region of the heart, and...
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8145303 |
Methods and apparatus for treating fibrillation and creating defibrillation waveforms
Methods and apparatus for treating fibrillation utilize biphasic waveforms. A cardiac stimulator includes a defibrillation circuit that uses a pulse width modulated capacitive discharge to generate...
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8140171 |
Subcutaneous implantable lead
A subcutaneous implantable device is provided that includes a defibrillation electrode disposed along a portion of a lead, and a lead tip connected to the lead. The lead tip includes a trailing end...
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8133286 |
Method and apparatus for high voltage aluminum capacitor design
The present subject matter includes a method of producing an apparatus for use in a patient, the method including etching an anode foil, anodizing the anode foil, assembling the anode foil, at...
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8135460 |
Medical device with resuscitation prompts depending on elapsed time
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a defibrillation treatment protocol in an external defibrillator using a measurement of elapsed time. The present invention provides a...
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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...
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8135461 |
Patient controlled atrial shock therapy
An implanted cardiac device detects an atrial arrhythmia and provides periodically updated atrial arrhythmia status as long as the arrhythmia is ongoing. A patient may request an indication of...
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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...
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8126540 |
Single chamber cardiac stimulator
A single-chamber cardiac stimulator (10) with at least partially electrically conductive housing (12) and first detection unit (52) connected via a ventricular electrode line to at least one...
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8121682 |
Combined hemodynamic and EGM-based arrhythmia detection
A medical device and associated method for detecting arrhythmias that includes sensing cardiac electrical signals and cardiac hemodynamic signals, determining a long-term baseline hemodynamic...
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8121683 |
External automatic defibrillator
An external automatic defibrillator including an attachment device that can be externally attached and carried by a patient, an identification device for detecting an abnormal event in the cardiac...
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8121681 |
Cooperating defibrillators and external chest compression devices
Devices, methods, and software implementing those methods for providing communicating external chest compression (ECC) devices and defibrillation (DF) devices, where the ECC and DF devices can be...
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8116864 |
Assessing medical electrode condition
An apparatus and techniques for determining whether a medical electrode, such as a defibrillation electrode coupled to an automated external defibrillator, is in a condition for replacement. The...
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8116863 |
System and method for effectively indicating element failure or a preventive maintenance condition in an automatic external defibrillator (AED)
Battery powered systems with long standby times, such as automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), may be required to indicate their operational status to a user by blinking lights or sounding...
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8116865 |
Defibrillation shock output circuit
This document discusses, among other things, techniques for generating and delivering a high voltage defibrillation shock using an implantable cardiac rhythm management device. An output energy...
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8112158 |
Method of maintaining wet-tantalum electrolytic capacitors
Wet-tantalum capacitors used in a medical device are charged to and maintained at a maintenance voltage between full energy charges so that deformation in the wet-tantalum capacitor is...
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8112150 |
Optimization of pacemaker settings
The system provides information to facilitate efficient optimization of programmer settings for cardiac pacemakers. It uses simultaneous measurement of a patient's electrocardiogram and peripheral...
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8103523 |
Diagnostic and intervention tools for emergency medical dispatch
A system and method assists an emergency medical dispatcher in responding to emergency calls. A computer implemented emergency medical dispatch protocol includes interrogatories for a dispatcher to...
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8103342 |
Therapy-selection methods for implantable heart monitors
An implantable heart-monitoring device comprising one or more leads for sensing electrical signals of a patient's heart a therapy circuit for delivering pharmaceuticals to the patient; and a...
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8099163 |
Automated defibrillator
One aspect relates to defibrillating an individual potentially in an absence of any human assistance including that from the individual. Another aspect relates to positioning an electrode in...
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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...
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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...
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8090437 |
Method and apparatus for testing an alternating current power source for defibrillation compatibility
A device tests a circuit that is a source of alternating current by measuring at least one electrical parameter of the circuit to determine whether the circuit is able to provide adequate energy...
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8090438 |
Method of implanting a subcutaneous defibrillator
A subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is disclosed which has an electrically active canister which houses a source of electrical energy, a capacitor, and operational circuitry that...
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8090439 |
Defibrillators customized for anticipated patients
An external defibrillator is customized for at least one person, i.e., an anticipated patient, through creation of a profile for the anticipated patient that allows the defibrillator and users of...
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8090434 |
Device, method and computer-readable storage medium for enhanced sense event classification in implantable devices by means of morphology analysis
An implantable cardiac device, e.g., a pacemaker, defibrillator, cardioverter or biventricular pacing device, that can sense cardiac electrical signals and accurately classify the sensed events....
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8090440 |
Defibrillators customized for anticipated patients
An external defibrillator is customized for at least one person, i.e., an anticipated patient, through creation of a profile for the anticipated patient that allows the defibrillator and users of...
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8090441 |
Defibrillators customized for anticipated patients
An external defibrillator is customized for at least one person, i.e., an anticipated patient, through creation of a profile for the anticipated patient that allows the defibrillator and users of...
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8086306 |
OTC automatic external defibrillator with quick install battery
An automatic external defibrillator is shipped from the manufacturer with the battery installed in the battery compartment of the AED. During shipment a removable tab is located between a battery...
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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...
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8086307 |
Terminating tachyarrhythmias
This disclosure is directed to techniques for treating tachyarrhythmias, such as atrial or ventricular fibrillation, in which a number of electrodes are employed to deliver electrical stimulation...
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