Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1997-10-27
2000-08-29
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 1362
Patent
active
061121193
ABSTRACT:
Two mechanisms work together to adjust two variables independently so that the gain of an input amplifier used to find physiologic signals in an implantable medical device can be automatically adjusted to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the electrical input to said amplifier. The first determines whether there has been too long a time between senses found in the body's electrical input to the amplifier and if true, and no other conditions override that consideration, it adjusts the value of a long term average parameter which is used as a referent parameter to adjust the actual parameter that is used as the referent for making either a threshold level adjustment or gain change, depending on the structure of the particular design's circuitry and/or software. One set of adjustments to the gain referent parameter depends on the relative size of the long term average parameter and the gain referent parameter. The mechanisms preferably employ counting registers, the one which adjusts the gain referent having a process to weight input signals such that those of different types get different weights, and the other mechanism only accepting certain of the input signals. Input signals to the two mechanisms can be either physiologically based or from stimulation pulses issued from an implanted device, such as, for example a pacemaker.
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Anderson Russell E.
Bright Kevin L.
Busacker James W.
De La Riva Virginia
Hoffman David W.
Duthler Reed A.
Evanisko George R.
Kamm William E.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
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