Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1994-11-15
1996-07-30
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
607 74, A61N 139
Patent
active
055407218
ABSTRACT:
The present invention uses the chronaxie, a characteristic time that enters into heart defibrillation. The present invention defines a figure of merit for physiologically effective current for characterizing and evaluating a defibrillation pulse. Using this figure of merit then, the present invention compares defibrillation-pulse options and to determine optima for capacitance, tilt, and pulse duration. The combined abilities of optima determination and quantitative comparison of options provides for shorter pulses and lower capacitance values than have been in common use in the prior art. The overall result of the present invention is the specifying of smaller, more efficient implantable defibrillator designs.
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Angeion Corporation
Kamm William E.
Schaetzle Kennedy J.
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