Epicardial percutaneous device for electrical cardiac therapy

Details Epicardial percutaneous device for electrical cardiac therapy Epicardial percutaneous device for electrical cardiac therapy

1997-06-06

1999-11-02

Kamm, William G.

Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application

Light, thermal, and electrical application

Electrical energy applicator

607 3, 607 5, 601 41, A61N 105

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ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for Cardiac Resuscitation of an arrested heart, for Percutaneous Internal Direct Epicardial Defibrillation, Cardioversion and Pacing with electrodes placeable directly into the chest cavity onto the epicardium via a device entering the chest in a specific area of the anterior chest wall via blunt dissection rapidly creating a passage of negligible size in the chest wall for the introduction of the electrodes, without the need for thoracotomy or for sternotomy and without requiring the use of sharp surgical instruments and without causing pneumothorax. Due to its rapidity of implementation, its safety and simplicity of application, the device can be used by Paramedics in the field at the scene of a cardiac arrest, where the resuscitation efforts are more likely to succeed, for internal direct epicardial defibrillation, cardioversion and pacing.

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