摘要:
An electrotherapy system, particularly an implantable heart stimulator, is configured as an electronic implant for electrical anti-tachycardia therapy of the heart, and includes at least one programmable therapy sequence (i.e. a sequence of several therapies that are delivered, one after the other, to treat a VT/VF episode). The implant has a therapy success memory for storing therapy success statistics for each therapy, as well as a therapy control unit that is configured to automatically undertake adaptation of the order of the therapies within a therapy sequence as a function of currently stored therapy success statistics.
摘要:
An implantable cardiac stimulator having an at least partially electrically conductive housing, a ventricular stimulation unit connectable to left ventricular or right ventricular stimulation electrode and designed to generate ventricular stimulation pulses for stimulation of heart ventricle, having terminal for right ventricular defibrillation electrode. Has far-field electrogram detection unit (FFEDU) and stimulation success detecting unit (SSDU), of which FFEDU has first input connected to the terminal for right ventricular defibrillation electrode and second input connected to housing. FFEDU detects far-field electrocardiogram based on electric potentials applied to inputs and deliver these potentials to SSDU. SSDU has electrogram input and signal input receives a far-field electrogram generated by FFEDU and receives stimulation signal that represents a ventricular stimulation pulse generated and delivered by ventricular stimulation unit and analyzes section of received far-field electrogram immediately following delivery of ventricular stimulation impulse to determine whether it represents an effective or ineffective ventricular stimulation.
摘要:
A gas-turbine lean combustor includes a combustion chamber (2) and a fuel nozzle (1) which includes a pilot fuel injection (17) and a main fuel injection (18). The main fuel injection (18) includes central recesses (23) for a controlled inhomogeneous fuel injection, the number of said recesses on the circumference ranging from 8 to 40 and said recesses having an angle of inclination δ2 in circumferential direction of 10°≦δ2≦60° and an axial angle of inclination δ1 relative to the combustor axis (4) between −10°≦δ1≦90°.
摘要:
The invention comprises a system and a method for secure remote programming of an implant. For this purpose, a TAN list is generated on the part of the programming device and both stored in the implant (10) and also provided to a physician. The TAN list is preferably indexed and the implant predefines the index of a TAN in each case, which a physician must input to have a programming instruction executed by the implant.
摘要:
An implantable medical device having at least one elongated electrical function conductor and an electrode pole connected to the at least one elongated function conductor. The at least one elongated function conductor transmits therapeutic signals or diagnostic signals or both. The electrode pole delivers electrical current or field or sense electrical potentials, or both, in surrounding tissue during use. The implantable medical device includes a sensing device connected to a field-generating electrode pole, a potential-sensing electrode pole, and a reference pole. The sensing device detects generated electrical potentials via the potential-sensing electrode pole in relation to the reference pole, and generates an output signal that represents a detected electrical potential. The implantable medical device includes a control device connected to the sensing device to evaluate an output signal generated by the sensing device, and to control the medical device as a function of the potential detected by the sensing device.
摘要:
A temporarily or permanently implantable medical device having at least one elongated electrical function conductor for transmitting therapeutic signals or diagnostic signals or both. At least one additional conductor is provided which together with the function conductor forms, at least in places, a double line which is separated from the function conductor by a dielectric and which is coupled to the function conductor via a coupling impedance. The coupling impedance is dimensioned so that the value of the line wave impedance of the function conductor for frequency ranges far above a frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals is much greater than the in the frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals, so that currents in a frequency range above the frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals are damped more intensely than the currents which form therapeutic or diagnostic signals.
摘要:
A device for generating opposing fields for shielding an implant in the body of a patient during a magnetic resonance imaging, which device comprises a field generation unit with one or more field generation configured to generate field pulses and a control unit coupled with the field generation unit, and which is configured in such a manner that field pulses can be generated as opposing fields through which, within a spatial zone which contains the implant at least in sections, high-frequency electromagnetic field pulses and/or magnetic gradient field pulses used during the magnetic resonance imaging can be reduced or cancelled out in their intensity through superposition.
摘要:
Device and method for detecting electromagnetic fields occurring in imaging magnetic resonance tomography MRT/MRI tests. Relates to an implantable medical device (IMD) comprising a hermetically sealed housing, control unit(s), detection unit(s) for MRT interference fields connected/connectable to control unit(s) and to electrode(s) and/or to antenna(s) and/or coil(s), wherein the MRT interference detection unit contains at least one electro-optical converter which converts induced voltages from the electrode(s) and/or the antenna(s) and/or the coil(s) to optical signals, which are optically transmitted in a potential-free manner within the detection unit for MRT interference fields to an evaluation unit for the detection unit for MRT interference fields, and when a threshold for the optical signal and/or a predetermined periodic occurrence of the optical signals is exceeded, the evaluation unit triggers switching to an MRI-safe state or transmits a corresponding signal to the control unit(s).
摘要:
An implantable electromedical device, having a detection unit for capturing possible device-impairing effects, a control unit, which is connected to the detection unit, a diagnostic and/or treatment unit, and a test unit, of which the test unit is designed to test the diagnostic-treatment unit, and to output test results for storage, of which the diagnostic and/or treatment unit includes sensor units and/or treatment delivery units as components and is designed to record physiological parameters and/or bring about delivery of a treatment, and of which the control unit is designed to actuate the test unit for testing the diagnostic-treatment unit.
摘要:
A single-chamber heart stimulator has an electrically conductive housing, first and second detection units, and a VT/SVT discrimination unit. The first detection unit is connected to an electrode pair of a ventricular electrode lead for obtaining a first electrocardiogram signal recorded in bipolar fashion, and is designed to sense and classify ventricular heartbeats. The second detection unit is connected on one side to an electrode of the ventricular electrode lead, and on the other side to the electrically conductive housing, for obtaining a second electrocardiogram signal containing signal features characteristic of atrial heartbeats. The VT/SVT discrimination unit is connected to the first and second detection units, and effects discrimination between ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias based on ventricular heartbeats measured through the first detection unit, and on atrial heartbeats measured through the second detection unit to the extent the rate of measured ventricular heartbeats exceeds a threshold value (VT zone threshold).