Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1996-12-17
1998-11-10
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
128908, 607 9, 607 63, A61N 137
Patent
active
058337105
ABSTRACT:
The invention protects circuits connected to low energy stimulating (pacing) or detection (sensing) electrodes of an implantable medical device from high energy pulses generated by the device itself or by external devices such as external defibrillators. It also protects cardiac tissue near the low energy electrodes. The invention provides for an automatic and/or foldback-type unidirectional current limiter in each low energy lead. The invention, when applied to an implantable defibrillator/pacemaker, also provides a shock generator presenting pulses to the pacing electrodes only in the direction blocked by the current limiter.
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ELA Medical S.A.
Kamm William E.
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