Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1985-11-20
1988-05-24
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128908, A61N 136
Patent
active
047459239
ABSTRACT:
An electrical circuit is connected in series with a lead of an implantable heart pacemaker between the pacemaker and the heart to protect the pacemaker against high voltages and currents produced by defibrillators and other sources. The electrical circuit has a sensing resistor arranged between two normally conducting field effect transistors (FETs) all in electrical series with the pacemaker lead. When the voltage drop across the sensing resistor exceeds a predetermined positive or negative amplitude, a transistor becomes conductive and turns off the normal conduction channels of the FETs. An alternate, electrically conductive high-impedance path is switched in to limit the current flow to the pacemaker until the magnitude of the voltage across the sensing resistor drops to a safe level. The transistor then becomes non-conductive and the FETs become conductive re-establishing the normal low-impedance conduction path and effectively switching the alternate high-impedance path out of the circuit.
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Intermedics Inc.
Kamm William E.
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