摘要:
A cardiac assist device which provides an improved method of conditioning a skeletal muscle graft 3. In particular the present invention features a memory 526. The memory contains a regime to transform the muscle. Typically the regime has a schedule of various muscle stimulation parameters which may be varied during the muscle training period. When the memory is activated the muscle conditioning regime is automatically altered during the desired time period. In the preferred embodiment the memory features several training schedules, any one of which may be selected. The present invention further features an interrupt to temporarily disable the muscle training regime in the event the onset of a cardiac arrythmia is detected. Once the arrythmia is confirmed, then the cardiac assist device delivers therapeutic stimulation to the heart 2. After the termination of the arrythmia is confirmed the muscle training regime is re-initiated at the point in the therapy it would have been if it had not been inhibited.
摘要:
A cardiac assist device having muscle augmentation after a confirmed arrhythmia. In particular the present invention operates, in a first embodiment, to sense a cardiac event, next it determines whether the cardiac event is a cardiac arrhythmia, if the event is not a cardiac arrhythmia the devices delivers stimulation to a skeletal muscle grafted about a heart, but if the event is a cardiac arrhythmia the device inhibits delivery of skeletal muscle stimulation and once the arrhythmia is confirmed, then delivers therapeutic stimulation to the heart. In a second embodiment the present invention operates to re-initiate skeletal muscle stimulation once the arrhythmia is confirmed but prior to the delivery of the therapeutic stimulation to the heart.
摘要:
A device and algorithm for a combined cardiomyostimulator and a cardiac pacer-cardioverter-defibrillator. In particular the present invention operates, in a first embodiment, to deliver stimulation to a skeletal muscle 3 grafted about a heart 2; sense depolarizations of a patient's heart; measure the intervals separating successive depolarizations of the patient's heart; define first and second interval ranges; determine the number of the measured intervals falling within the first and second interval ranges; inhibit the delivery of stimulation to a skeletal muscle grafted about a heart upon the sensing of a depolarization within the first or second interval range; detect the occurrence of a first type of arrhythmia when the number of the measured intervals falling within the first interval range equals a first predetermined value; detect the occurrence of a second type of an arrhythmia when the number of the intervals falling within the second interval range equals a second predetermined value; deliver a first type of arrhythmia therapy in response to the detection of the first arrhythmia; and deliver a second type of arrhythmia therapy in response to the detection of the second arrhythmia, the second type of arrhythmia therapy having a cardiac stimulation component and a skeletal muscle component.