Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1993-06-24
1994-10-18
Manuel, George
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 1372
Patent
active
053564251
ABSTRACT:
A stimulator for applying stimulus pulses to the AV nodal fat pad in response to sensed atrial rate exceeding a predetermined rate, in order to reduce the ventricular rate. The device also includes a cardiac pacemaker which serves to pace the ventricle in the event that the ventricular rate is lowered below a pacing rate, and provides for feedback control of the stimulus parameters applied to the AV nodal fat pad, as a function of the determined effect of the stimulus pulses on the ventricular rate.
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Bardy Gust H.
Mehra Rahul
Duthler Reed A.
Manuel George
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
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