摘要:
An implantable medical device can include a therapy circuit coupled to a therapy delivery terminal, the therapy circuit configured to generate a specified electrostimulation therapy for delivery to a tissue site via the therapy delivery terminal, and a measurement circuit for measuring at least two impedances of a first terminal combination including the therapy delivery terminal, the two impedances corresponding to at least two instances of excitation separated enough in time to capture an impedance artifact due at least in part to a motion of the heart, such as to determine an electrostimulation therapy lead status at least in part using the at least two impedances.
摘要:
An atrial defibrillation system includes an implantable atrial defibrillator including an atrial fibrillation detector and an atrial cardiovertor, and an external communication device dimensioned to be hand-held and including an RF transmitter for transmitting a command signal to the implanted defibrillator. The implantable defibrillator includes a receiver for receiving the command signal, activation means responsive to receipt of the command signal for activating the atrial fibrillation detector and the atrial cardiovertor if the atrial fibrillation detector detects atrial fibrillation, and an RF transmitter for transmitting an acknowledgment signal to the external communication device responsive to the receiver receiving the command signal. The external communication device further includes a receiver for receiving the acknowledgment signal and an indicator for providing a perceptible indication responsive to receipt of the acknowledgment signal.
摘要:
A telemetry system and method of monitoring cardiac activity or providing therapy to the heart for an implantable cardiac device. The system includes a receiver and a transmitter in an external programmer and a receiver section and transmitter section in the cardiac device. The receiver section and the transmitter section of the cardiac device generally remain in a de-energized state. The receiver section is energized at spaced apart time intervals to detect an initiation signal transmitted by the external programmer. If the initiation signal is detected, the receiver section and the transmitter section of the cardiac device are fully activated. The external programmer includes a signal strength indicating means for providing an indication of received signal strength which the user can use to position the receiver and transmitter in the external programmer for optimum received signal strength. An antenna is disposed in the header of the implanted device to facilitate communication at high speed.
摘要:
An ambulatory or implantable device, such as a pacer, defibrillator, or other cardiac rhythm management device, can tolerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or other noise without turning on an integrated circuit diode by selectively providing a bias voltage that can overcome an expected induced voltage resulting from the MRI or other noise.
摘要:
An implantable or other ambulatory device, such as a pacer, defibrillator, or other cardiac function management device, can use imaging information, such as one or more of cardiac functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) information or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information, such as for helping optimize one or more parameters of the implantable or other ambulatory device.
摘要:
Physiologic information can be received from a subject during a portion of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) session using a sensing circuit of an implantable medical device (IMD). An indication of an active MRI scan can be received, and a time period to inhibit use of physiological information from the subject can be determined following the received indication of the active MRI scan.
摘要:
One aspect of this disclosure relates to an apparatus for providing a selective capacitance. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a first and second capacitor in a stack, and a switching circuit connected between the first and second capacitors. The switching circuit has at least two states, and is adapted to provide a first defibrillation capacitance in a first state and a second defibrillation capacitance in a second state. A switching circuit embodiment includes a field effect transistor (FET) adapted to have a source connected to the first capacitor and a drain connected to the second capacitor, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) adapted to have an emitter connected to the source of the FET and a collector connected to a gate of the FET, a first current source connected to the collector of the BJT, and a second current source connected to a base of the BJT.
摘要:
An improved protection mechanism to protect from unintended execution of critical tasks operates, in one example embodiment, by receiving a request to start a task by a first process. The first process informs a second process of running an algorithm to verify the legitimacy of the received request to determine the need to start the task. The second process stores the information regarding the starting the algorithm by the first process. The first process runs the algorithm to verify the legitimacy of the received request, and conveys an outcome of the verification to the second process. The second process enables the start of the task by the first process based on the outcome of the verification and a checking of the stored information and the first process starts the task.
摘要:
A defibrillator system includes an implantable defibrillator and a non-implantable external receiver. The implantable defibrillator includes a first sense channel for generating a first electrogram and a second sense channel for generating a second electrogram. The defibrillator further includes a cardioverter for applying cardioverting electrical energy to the heart and a transmitter for transmitting the first and second electrograms. The non-implantable receiver includes a display for simultaneously displaying the first and second electrograms. The implantable defibrillator may further include an event detector having a threshold for detecting cardiac events in one of the electrograms and an event marker generator for generating an event marker for each detected cardiac event. The transmitter transmits the event detection markers and the display displays the event detection markers and the thresholds with the corresponding electrogram.
摘要:
An implantable atrial defibrillator provides cardioverting electrical energy to the atria of a human heart in need of cardioversion. The atrial defibrillator includes a first detector for detecting ventricular activations of the heart, a second detector for detecting atrial activity of the heart, and an atrial fibrillation detector responsive to the second detector for determining when the atria of the heart are in need of cardioversion. The atrial defibrillator also includes a cardioverting stage for applying the cardioverting electrical energy to the atria of the heart when the atria of the heart are in need of cardioversion and when the time between immediately successive ventricular activations is greater than a preselected minimum time interval.