Stimulation system for a skeletal muscle

Details Stimulation system for a skeletal muscle Stimulation system for a skeletal muscle

1992-09-14

1994-09-06

Kamm, William E.

Surgery

Cardiac augmentation

607 48, A61M 110

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053443861

ABSTRACT:
A stimulation system for a skeletal muscle in a patient having a heart tred with cardiomyoplasty, for use as a supplement to a conventional cardiac pacemaker circuit, includes a stimulation unit for producing output signals to stimulate the skeletal muscle under control of the cardiac pacemaker circuit, and a plurality of implantable electrodes connected to the stimulation unit and the skeletal muscle, for selectively delivering output signals from the stimulation unit to the skeletal muscle. The stimulation unit output signal intensity is controlled by the cardiac pacemaker circuit to follow a value representative of the momentary physical stress and cardiovascular requirement, respectively. The value representative of the cardiovascular requirement includes an autonomous nervous system activity value which is substantially independent of further influential values.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5007927 (1991-04-01), Badylak et al.
patent: 5069680 (1991-12-01), Grandjean

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