Implantable heart defibrillator

Details Implantable heart defibrillator Implantable heart defibrillator

1996-09-18

1998-03-03

Getzow, Scott M.

Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application

Light, thermal, and electrical application

Electrical therapeutic systems

A61N 139

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057229945

ABSTRACT:
An implantable defibrillator has an electrode lead system a sensing unit for sensing the condition of the heart and emitting a condition signal corresponding to that condition, a control unit for determining the heart's condition from the condition signal and, if a state of fibrillation is present, sending a command signal to a shock pulse generator, which, depending on the command signal, delivers at least one defibrillation shock to the heart via the electrode lead system. The shock being formal of one or more low-energy pulses with an energy less than 2 Joules and a very high voltage, i.e. more than 1,000 Volts. Each low-energy pulse thus has a voltage greatly exceeding the voltage in a conventional defibrillation shock and less energy than the energy in a conventional defibrillation shock.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3773050 (1973-11-01), Panico
patent: 4830006 (1989-05-01), Haluska et al.
patent: 5265588 (1993-11-01), Nelson et al.

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