Surgery – Instruments – Electrode guide means
Patent
1995-03-17
1997-04-08
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Instruments
Electrode guide means
128898, 607129, 607119, 607 5, A61N 105
Patent
active
056182872
ABSTRACT:
Improved implantable defibrillator electrodes and methods of implanting such electrodes are disclosed. One embodiment of the defibrillator electrodes includes a flexible conductive mesh and non-conductive mesh. Another embodiment of the defibrillator electrodes includes a flexible conductive mesh, a non-conductive mesh and an insulator therebetween. A third embodiment of the defibrillator electrode compensates for the shape of a human heart.
Methods for implanting the defibrillator electrodes include rolling an electrode and inserting the rolled electrode into a subxiphoid opening while thorascopically observing the insertion and manipulation of the defibrillator electrode.
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Fogarty Thomas J.
Howell Thomas A.
Fogarty Thomas J.
Hafer Robert A.
Koo Benjamin
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