Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1999-08-27
2000-12-19
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 137
Patent
active
061637246
ABSTRACT:
A software programmable device means such as a microprocessor discriminates between evoked response signals and post-pace polarization signals sensed by an implantable medical device. The polarity of the positive or negative change in voltage in respect of time (or dv/dt) of the waveform incident on the lead electrodes is monitored during a short period of time immediately following a paced event. It has been discovered that the post-pace polarization signal exhibits a relatively constant polarity during the capture detect window, and that the evoked response signal may cause the polarity of post-pace polarization signal to reverse during the capture detect window . The sign of the post-pace polarization polarity, either positive or negative, is determined by the design of the specific output circuitry. The evoked response signal may reverse the polarity of the sensed signal in either case, from positive to negative or from negative to positive, during the time window of interest. In another embodiment of the present invention, and when the magnitude of the post-pace polarization is so great that the evoked response does not reverse the polarity of the waveform, discrimination of the evoked response is achieved by noting an acceleration (or increasing magnitude of dv/dt) in the sensed signal or waveform.
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Blow Brian A.
Hemming Michael Todd
Morrison Scott M.
Peck Bradley C.
Schuelke Robert John
Kamm William E.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
Woods Thomas F.
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