Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-24
2006-01-24
Jastrzab, Jeffrey R. (Department: 3762)
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
Reexamination Certificate
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06990374
ABSTRACT:
Techniques are described for overdrive pacing the heart using a pacemaker. Other techniques are described for adaptively adjusting overdrive pacing parameters so as to achieve a determined target degree of pacing of, for example, 95% paced beats. By adaptively adjusting overdrive parameters to maintain a target degree of pacing, the average overdrive pacing rate is minimized while still maintaining a high number of paced beats, thereby reducing the risk of a tachyarrhythmia occurring within the patient. Still other techniques are described for increasing an overdrive pacing rate by an amount related to a current overdrive pacing rate.
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Bornzin Gene A.
Florio Joseph J.
Kurschinski Douglas T.
Poore John W.
Jastrzab Jeffrey R.
Oropeza Frances P.
Pacesetter Inc.
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