Cardiac assist device having improved muscle stimulation

Details Cardiac assist device having improved muscle stimulation Cardiac assist device having improved muscle stimulation

1995-08-17

1997-08-19

Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.

Surgery

Cardiac augmentation

607 72, A61N 1362

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active

056582374

ABSTRACT:
A cardiac assist device which provides an improved method of conditioning a skeletal muscle graft. In particular the present invention features a memory. The memory contains a regime to transform the muscle. Typically the regime has a schedule of various muscle stimulation parameters which may be varied during the muscle training period. When the memory is activated the muscle conditioning regime is automatically altered during the desired time period. In the preferred embodiment the memory features several training schedules, any one of which may be selected. The present invention further features an interrupt to temporarily disable the muscle training regime in the event the onset of a cardiac arrythmia is detected. Once the arrythmia is confirmed, then the cardiac assist device delivers therapeutic stimulation to the heart. After the termination of the arrythmia is confirmed the muscle training regime is re-initiated at the point in the therapy it would have been if it had not been inhibited.

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