Cardiac pacemaker upper rate limit control

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1998-06-29

2000-09-12

Kamm, William E.

Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application

Light, thermal, and electrical application

Electrical therapeutic systems

A61N 1365

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061190403

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for automatically setting a variable upper rate limit for the pacing pulse signal provided by a rate adaptive implantable pacemaker which relies on a non-physiological sensor to determine the pacing needs of the patient. A physiological parameter of the patient's condition is sensed and used to determine an upper limit for the pacing rate otherwise called for based on the reading of the non-physiological sensor. In a disclosed embodiment, the ventricular preejection period is monitored as the physiological parameter, and the rate of change of this parameter is utilized to set the upper limit of the pacing pulse rate.

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