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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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