Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100004706 | PACING SYSTEM CONTROLLER INTEGRATED INTO INDEFLATOR - Systems and methods for temporarily pacing a patient's heart are provided. One system includes a vascular treatment system having a vascular access system and a therapy system. The therapy system includes an indeflator and an elongate medical device and the elongate medical device has an inflatable member and an electrode. The indeflator is adapted to provide pressurized fluid to the inflatable member and electrical signals to the electrode, with its operation manually or automatically controlled. Devices for electrically and fluidly coupling the indeflator and the elongate medical device are also provided. | 01-07-2010 |
20100234912 | FLEXIBLE NEURAL STIMULATION ENGINE - A method for implementing a neural stimulation therapy mode in an implantable medical device (IMD) comprising the acts of mapping respective device states, defined by one or more timer states that include at least one neural event timer or one or more indications of one or more sensed physiologic events, to associated device actions in a stored neural table, storing an event represented as a device status word and a time stamp in a queue in response to an action input, and comparing one or more current timer states or one or more indications of one or more sensed physiologic events to a device state contained in the neural table and, if found to match, causing performance of one or more associated device actions, wherein the device actions include one or more of a neural stimulation energy delivery or a change in one or more timer states. | 09-16-2010 |
20100249860 | EXTERNAL CARDIAC STIMULATION PATCH - An external cardiac stimulation patch integrates a transcutaneous cardiac stimulation device and body-surface electrodes with a skin patch. The skin patch is to be attached onto a patient to provide for electrical contacts between the body-surface electrodes and a patient. The transcutaneous cardiac stimulation device delivers pacing pulses to the heart of the patient through pacing electrodes selected from the body-surface electrodes. | 09-30-2010 |
20100298900 | CARDIAC PACEMAKER WITH TABLE-BASED PACING MODE IMPLEMENTATION - A device and method for implementing a bradycardia pacing mode are disclosed which is mostly hardware-based but still allows the flexibility for making major changes in brady behavior normally found only in firmware-based implementations. The brady behavior of the device is encapsulated by a table in an area of RAM referred to as brady RAM, and the brady behavior can be changed by re-loading the brady RAM with a different table. | 11-25-2010 |
20110040344 | MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ELECTRONIC REPOSITIONING - Methods and devices for treating a blockage in the coronary arterial system are provided. Some blockages in the coronary arterial system restrict the blood flow to a portion of the heart, causing ischemia or infarction. Such blockages may be treated by displacing, removing and/or breaking up the blockage, which allows blood to reperfuse into the infarcted portion of the heart. Before, during, and/or after the reperfusion, cardioprotective pacing is provided to the heart. The devices have multiple electrodes in order to provide multiple locations at which the cardioprotective pacing may be delivered. The devices are adapted to deliver cardioprotective pacing to the heart via the electrode that results in a relatively high level of dyssynchrony of the heart. | 02-17-2011 |
20110046520 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE CONFIGURED AS A PEDOMETER - This document discusses, among other things, a system including an implantable medical device. The implantable medical device includes a control circuit and a motion sensing device. The motion sensing device is coupled to the control circuit, and the motion sensing device is configured to transmit signals to the control circuit. The control circuit is configured to identify one or more steps of a patient using the motion sensing device signal. | 02-24-2011 |
20110071584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CONTROL OF PACING POST-CONDITIONING - Pacing post-conditioning (PPC) therapy is applied to a patient to minimize ischemic injury associated with MI and/or reperfusion injury associated with a post-MI revascularization procedure. In various embodiments, a PPC therapy is delivered by executing a pacing protocol with pacing parameters determined and dynamically adjusted based on patient-specific factors to ensure efficacy and safety of the patient. | 03-24-2011 |
20110224606 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE ISCHEMIC CONDITIONING DURING REVASCULARIZATION - Remote ischemic conditioning is applied during a revascularization procedure to prevent and/or reduce myocardial injury associated with myocardial infarction (MI) and the revascularization procedure such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). A percutaneous transluminal vascular intervention (PTVI) device used for the revascularization procedure, such as an introducer sheath or a guide catheter, includes an adjustable balloon to be positioned at a vascular site remote from the heart. The remote ischemic conditioning is applied by inflating and deflating the adjustable balloon, thereby causing temporary ischemia in the vascular site to activate the patient's intrinsic cardioprotective mechanism. | 09-15-2011 |