Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1999-01-28
2000-08-15
Getzow, Scott M.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 139
Patent
active
061049530
ABSTRACT:
A defibrillator circuit that delivers high voltage electrical pulses and lower energy pacing pulses to a patient. The circuit allows the patient to be isolated so that no current leaks prior to the administration of the pacing or defibrillation pulse. In one embodiment, the delivery circuit includes a high voltage capacitor, with a GTO selectively connecting the positive terminal of the capacitor to ground. The negative terminal of the capacitor is coupled to one terminal of a bridge circuit, and another terminal of the bridge circuit is connected to ground. The bridge circuit has four SCRs which are selectively switched to produce the biphasic steering of current. Current conduction through the bridge circuit is initiated and commutated by the GTO. Turning on the GTO connects the positive terminal of the charged capacitor to ground, thereby lowering the potential of the negative terminal and causing current flow through the bridge circuit. By avoiding application of the capacitor voltage to the bridge circuit prior to energy discharge there through, a number of advantages are achieved over conventional defibrillator circuit designs.
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Getzow Scott M.
Heartstream, Inc.
Snyder Cecily Anne
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