Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1995-06-09
1998-03-10
Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 1362
Patent
active
057255610
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for variable rate cardiac stimulation, wherein sudden drops in the rate of delivery of stimulation pulses are avoided by means of rate smoothing and peak rate support functions. In one embodiment, circuitry in a cardiac pulse generator detects atrial events and maintains an updated value of the A-A time intervals between certain atrial events. If a preset ratio or total of these A-A intervals are found to have been shorter than the updated value by at a least a predetermined amount of time, a rate smoothing function is activated wherein the rate of delivery of stimulating pulses is prevented from changing, from cycle to cycle, by more than a predetermined maximum amount. A peak rate support function preferably employs the same updated value in the computation of "escape" intervals. Following the latest A-A interval, if that A-A interval is less than the updated value, then the updated value is used as the new escape interval. If the latest A-A interval is greater than or equal to the updated value but less than the previous updated value, the current escape interval is used as the new escape interval. If the latest A-A interval is less than both the previous updated value and the current updated value, the value updated is used as the new escape interval, and the pulse generator enters a decay mode wherein the escape interval is gradually and incrementally lengthened to prevent sudden changes in the rate of delivery of stimulation pulses.
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Hess Michael F.
Markowitz H. Toby
Stroebel John C.
Atlass Michael B.
Jastrzab Jeffrey R.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
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