Atrial defibrillation lock out feature

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060686510

ABSTRACT:
An implantable atrial defibrillator for converting atrial arrhythmias into normal sinus rhythm includes a patient activated mode, a programmable safety timer, and means for deactivating the patient activated mode. The programmable safety timer starts counting down when AF is detected. If the safety timer times out before the patient activates delivery of an atrial defibrillation shock, the device will deactivate the atrial defibrillation function, and will not allow an atrial defibrillation shock to be delivered until the physician reactivates it with a programmer. This allows the physician to administer anticoagulants to the patient prior to atrial cardioversion. The preferred length of time between AF detection and lock out of the atrial defibrillation function is 24 hours.

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