Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1994-10-12
1996-08-27
Manuel, George
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 139
Patent
active
055496431
ABSTRACT:
The model that is developed in the invention is based upon the pioneering neurophysiological models of Lapicque and Weiss. The present model determines mathematically the optimum pulse duration, d.sub.p, for a truncated capacitor-discharge waveform employed for defibrillation. The model comprehends the system time constant, RC, where R is tissue resistance and C is the value of the capacitor being discharged, and also the chronaxie time, d.sub.c, defined by Lapicque, which is a characteristic time associated with the heart. The present model and analysis find the optimum pulse duration to be d.sub.p =(0.58)(RC+d.sub.c). Taking the best estimate of the chronaxie value from the literature to be 2.7 ms, permits one to rewrite the optimum pulse duration as d.sub.p =(0.58)RC+1.6 ms. The apparatus makes use of the mathematical definition of optimum pulse duration by storing in the control circuitry of the defibrillation system the actual measured value of the particular capacitor incorporated in the system. The optimized-pulse prescription of this invention can be applied to a monophasic waveform, or to either or both of the phases of a biphasic waveform.
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Kroll Mark W.
Smith Charles U.
Angeion Corporation
Getzow Scott M.
Manuel George
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