Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1995-09-08
1997-09-02
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
607 46, A61N 139, A61N 134
Patent
active
056626894
ABSTRACT:
An implantable cardioverter for providing cardioversion electrical energy to at least one chamber of a patient's heart in need of cardioversion and applying a pain alleviating therapy at an appropriate site in the patient's body prior to or in conjunction with the delivery of the cardioversion energy to the heart chamber to alleviate propagated pain perceived by the patient. The combined cardioversion and pain alleviating therapies are preferably realized in a single implantable, multi-programmable medical device or separate implantable cardioversion and pain control devices with means for communicating operating and status commands between the devices through the patient's body.
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Elsberry Dennis D.
Mehra Rahul
Otten Lynn M.
Rise Mark T.
Thompson David L.
Duthler Reed A.
Kamm William E.
Layno Carl H.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
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