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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,...
8180451 System and method for programming an implantable pulse generator  
In one embodiment, a method of programming an IPG comprises providing one or several GUI screens on the programmer device, the GUI screens comprising a master amplitude GUI control for controlling...
8180428 Methods and systems for use in selecting cardiac pacing sites  
A method and system for use in selecting a cardiac pacing site includes sensors for tracking wall motion (e.g., sensors coupled to the right and left ventricular heart wall). The wall motion of one...
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...
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...
8160694 Adjustment mechanism for electrical medical appliances, and methods of use  
Electrical medical equipment that includes a user operable primary adjustment mechanism containing two or fewer user-adjustable elements, and a controller adapted to control and alter at least one...
8150511 Systems and methods for determining an optimal defibrillation shock waveform  
Embodiments of the invention present methods and systems for determining an optimal defibrillation shock waveform for application to the heart of a patient to stop a rhythm abnormality such as...
8150508 Vagus nerve stimulation method  
An implanted electrical signal generator delivers a novel exogenous electrical signal to a vagus nerve of a patient. The vagus nerve conducts action potentials originating in the heart and lungs to...
8150510 Shock timing technology  
A method for accurately determining timing points for T-wave shocks is particularly useful in a system for determining a cardiac shock strength in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD....
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...
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...
8065013 Method for optimizing search for spinal cord stimulation parameter setting  
A method of transitioning stimulation energy (e.g., electrical stimulation pulses) between a plurality of electrodes implanted within a patient is provided. The method comprises selecting a...
8060197 Parasympathetic stimulation for termination of non-sinus atrial tachycardia  
Apparatus is provided, which includes an electrode device, configured to be coupled to an atrial site of a subject containing parasympathetic nervous tissue, and a control unit. The control unit is...
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...
8032213 Ventricular defibrillation threshold estimation  
Systems and methods are provided for estimating a patient's ventricular defibrillation threshold (VDFT). Stimulation pulses, which are of at least three different energy levels up to 2 Joules, are...
8027721 Balanced charge waveform for transcutaneous pacing  
External pacemaker systems and methods deliver pacing waveforms that minimize hydrolysis of the electrode gel. Compensating pulses are interleaved with the pacing pulses, with a polarity and...
8024040 Method and system for treatment of neurocardiogenic syncope  
A method and apparatus for treating or preventing neurocardiogenic syncope is disclosed. Upon detection of bradycardia or a drop in blood pressure indicating the onset of syncope,...
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...
8005541 Implantable cardioverter defibrillator with programmable capacitor charging level  
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) has a programmable ICD energy level corresponding to the maximum defibrillation energy deliverable with each defibrillation shock pulse. The ICD...
7974701 Dosing limitation for an implantable medical device  
A method for limiting patient-initiated electrical signal therapy to a cranial nerve of a patient is provided. An electrical signal therapy limit is selected from the group consisting of; a maximum...
7970465 Decision paradigms for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators  
New decision paradigms for ICDs are described. In one implementation, an implantable system senses cardiac output and arterial pressure parameters and shocks the heart in inverse relation to the...
7957798 Defibrillator/monitor system having a pod with leads capable of wirelessly communicating  
A modular external defibrillator system in embodiments of the teachings may include one or more of the following features: a base containing a defibrillator to deliver a defibrillation shock to a...
7957799 Non-invasive cardiac potentiation therapy  
An external cardiac medical device for delivering Cardiac Potentiation Therapy (CPT). Techniques used with the device include initial diagnosis of the patient, delivery of the CPT, and...
7930028 Implantable cardiac device with a shock lead  
An implantable cardiac device includes a housing (2), pulse generator (7) therein to generate physiologically effective electrical pulses, a shock lead (3), externally of the housing (2),...
7890167 Pain free defibrillation threshold estimation  
A system and method for painlessly calculating an estimated defibrillation threshold, such as by using an implantable medical device and a controller. The estimated defibrillation threshold can be...
7873413 Closed loop neural stimulation synchronized to cardiac cycles  
Various aspects of the present subject matter relate to a method. According to various method embodiments, cardiac activity is detected, and neural stimulation is synchronized with a reference...
7869869 Subcardiac threshold vagal nerve stimulation  
In one embodiment, an implantable stimulation apparatus includes a vagal nerve stimulator configured to generate electrical pulses below a cardiac threshold of a heart, and an electrode coupled to...
7865238 High-voltage module for an external defibrillator  
A defibrillator includes a module having a portion of the high-voltage components of the defibrillator attached to a substrate and encased in a dielectric material. In one embodiment the...
7853323 Selection of neurostimulator parameter configurations using neural networks  
In general, the invention is directed to a technique for selection of parameter configurations for a neurostimulator using neural networks. The technique may be employed by a programming device to...
7840277 Emergency management system  
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for: 1) displaying all vital central station (CS) information and controls on a single screen;2) linking peripheral central stations (pCSs) to...
7839620 Filtered feedthrough assemblies for implantable devices and methods of manufacture  
A solder joint between a capacitive element and a ferrule of a filtered feedthrough assembly for an implantable medical device is formed from a solder pre-form mounted on a portion of an external...
7769465 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,...
7764998 Implantable cardiac stimulation devices with back-up defibrillation  
Systems and methods are provided for providing back-up or redundant defibrillation in case of a faulty defibrillation path or faulty defibrillation circuit element. In case a problem is detected...
7756570 Methods and arrangements for reducing oversensing and/or providing diagnostic information in implantable medical devices  
An exemplary method to reduce risk of ventricular oversensing includes sensing, in vivo, amplitude of electrical cardiac activity, comparing sensed amplitude to a low sensitivity threshold where if...
7747320 Responding a partial lead failure in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator  
An implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) delivers an electrical therapy signal to the heart of a patient. When ventricular fibrillation or another condition of the heart requiring high voltage...
7717848 Collecting sleep quality information via a medical device  
At least one of a medical device, such as an implantable medical device, and a programming device determines values for one or more metrics that indicate the quality of a patient's sleep. Sleep...
7711425 Defibrillation threshold prediction methods and systems  
A nondefibrillating and nonfibrillation-inducing energy is delivered at a first internal thoracic location. A first resulting electrical signal is detected at a second internal thoracic location in...
7682745 Medical device having lithium-ion battery  
A medical device includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for providing power to the medical device. The lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode comprising a current collector and an...
7668593 System and method to accelerate individualized gain adjustment in implantable medical device systems  
A system and method for increasing the speed of individualizing amplifier gain optimization in implantable medical devices. A variable amplifier gain is initially set at a relatively high level...
7660629 Device and method for preventing the acceleration of cardiac arrhythmias  
An exemplary method includes detecting ventricular fibrillation, delivering a low voltage cardiac stimulus, determining whether the low voltage cardiac stimulus terminated the ventricular...
7640059 External presentation of electrical stimulation parameters  
A trial stimulation system and, more particularly, an indicator device within the trial stimulation system that measures and indicates energy amplitude levels for electrical stimulation therapy...
7623336 Feedthrough capacitor having reduced self resonance insertion loss dip  
The self-resonance insertion loss dip of a feedthrough capacitor is reduced or eliminated by raising the equivalent series resistance of the capacitor, thus minimizing the capacitor Q. The...
7596411 Apparatus and method for two-component bioelectrical impedance ratio measuring and monitoring  
An implantable cardiac stimulation and rhythm management device includes an impedance measuring circuit which determines a patient's intra-thoracic impedance and the resistance and reactance...
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...
7450995 Implantable cardiac stimulation device including an output circuit that provides arbitrarily shaped defibrillation waveforms  
An output circuit for use in an implantable cardiac defibrillation provides an output pulse having a waveform of virtually any desired shape. The device includes a sensing circuit that senses...
7408762 Method and apparatus for providing capacitor feedthrough  
A capacitor feedthrough assembly with a cavity including a capacitor stack, including one or more substantially flat anode layers and one or more substantially flat cathode layers in a case with a...
7369889 Apparatus for analyzing cardiac events  
An apparatus for detecting cardiac events in electrograms has a feature extraction unit that derives features of the cardiac events for discriminating among different types of cardiac events. A...
7366567 Method for treating myocardial infarction  
A method for treating patients after a myocardial infarction which includes pacing therapy is disclosed. A cardiac rhythm management device is configured to deliver pre-excitation pacing to one or...
7336994 Control of atrial defibrillation therapy based on hemodynamic sensor feedback  
Control of defibrillation therapy delivered by implantable medical devices (IMDs) using hemodynamic sensor feedback is disclosed. The hemodynamic sensor feedback allows for increased control over...
7328065 Electric stimulator and defibrillator  
A plurality of electrodes are adapted to be attached on a living body. An electric pulse is output through the electrodes as an electric stimulation to the living body. An analyzer is operable to...
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