Demand driven capacitor charging for cardiac pacing

    公开(公告)号:US10751541B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15676066

    申请日:2017-08-14

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    发明人: Robert T. Sawchuk

    摘要: An implantable medical device system delivers a pacing pulse to a patient's heart and starts a first pacing interval corresponding to a pacing rate in response to the delivered pacing pulse. The system charges a holding capacitor to a pacing voltage amplitude during the first pacing interval. The system detects an increased intrinsic heart rate that is at least a threshold rate faster than the current pacing rate from a cardiac electrical signal received by a sensing circuit of the implantable medical device. The system starts a second pacing interval in response to an intrinsic cardiac event sensed from the cardiac electrical signal and withholds charging of the holding capacitor for at least a portion of the second pacing interval in response to detecting the increased intrinsic heart rate.

    OPERATION OF AN EXTRACARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) DURING IMPLANTATION OF ANOTHER MEDICAL DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190262624A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-29

    申请号:US16408713

    申请日:2019-05-10

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    发明人: Robert T. Sawchuk

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed for determining, by an extracardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implanted in a patient, whether one or more test therapy signals generated by another medical device implanted in the patient is detected. In response to detecting the one or more test therapy signals, the extracardiovascular ICD provides an indication that the extracardiovascular ICD has detected the one or more test therapy signals. In some examples, the indication is an audible tone provided to a clinician. In some examples, the other medical device is an intracardiac cardiac pacing device, and the one or more test therapy signals comprises a plurality of anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) pulses.