Current limiter for implantable electronic device lead

Details Current limiter for implantable electronic device lead Current limiter for implantable electronic device lead

1994-08-09

1997-01-07

Kamm, William E.

Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application

Light, thermal, and electrical application

Electrical therapeutic systems

128908, A61N 108

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055912184

ABSTRACT:
The invention protects circuits connected to low energy stimulating (pacing) or detection (sensing) electrodes of an implantable medical device from high energy pulses generated by the device itself or by external devices such as external defibrillators. It also protects cardiac tissue near the low energy electrodes. The invention provides for an automatic and/or foldback-type unidirectional current limiter in each low energy lead. The invention, when applied to an implantable defibrillator/pacemaker, also provides a shock generator presenting pulses to the pacing electrodes only in the direction blocked by the current limiter.

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