摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for an implantable medical device comprising means for selecting between an atrial chamber reset (ACR) test and an atrioventricular conduction (AVC) test to provide atrial capture management and means for switching between an atrial-based pacing mode and a dual chamber pacing mode based on detecting relatively reliable atrioventricular conduction.
摘要:
In an atrial pacing system, the A-PACE pulse energy, defined by the pulse width and pulse amplitude, sufficient to reliably capture the atrium without being wasteful of battery energy is periodically determined in accordance with atrial capture management (ACM) algorithms. The ACM algorithms allow a slow intrinsic atrial heart rate that is suppressed by delivered A-PACE pulses resulting in A-CAPTURE and that occurs when delivered test A-PACE pulses result in ALOC to be detected. ALOC is declared if an A-EVENT of the slow intrinsic atrial heart rate is detected either during an ACM test window timed from the last delivered test A-PACE pulse or during delivery of a sequence of test A-PACE pulses delivered within or defining the ACM test window correlated to the slow intrinsic atrial heart rate.
摘要:
An implantable medical device (IMD) includes a sensor for monitoring parameters indicative of sleep disordered breathing. The IMD also includes a position sensor that indicates the relative position and/or activity level of the patient. The position sensor data is used in one or more ways in conjunction with the SDB sensing. The position data is used to confirm that such sensed data is likely indicative of SDB or to select the appropriate criteria for comparison.
摘要:
An implantable medical device (IMD) performs periodic testing of a patient to determine ischemia threshold information. At selected times while the patient is at rest, the IMD increases the pacing rate over time until it receives feedback either from the patient or from an ischemia sensor. The IMD determines the threshold based upon the pacing rate at the time when the feedback was received. The threshold information can be used to adjust the upper pacing rate that can be used during rate adaptive pacing, to determine the effects of drug therapy, and to provide a general indication of the state of coronary artery disease in the patient. The periodic increase of pacing rate to the ischemic zone also provides a preconditioning of the myocardium to allow the patient greater exercise benefit without angina.
摘要:
The invention provides methods and apparatus for determining in a non-tracking pacing mode (e.g., DDI/R, VVI/R) whether a ventricular pacing stimulus is capturing a paced ventricle, including some or all of the following aspects. For example, increasing a ventricular pacing rate a nominal amount to an overdrive pacing rate higher than a most recent heart rate and evaluating a conduction interval from a first pacing ventricle to a second sensing ventricle and then continuing to monitor the underlying rate to ensure that a threshold testing pacing rate will not exceed a predetermined minimum interval and providing pacing stimulation to the first ventricle and sensing the second ventricle to determine whether the pacing stimulation to the first ventricle was one of sub-threshold and supra-threshold. The methods and apparatus are especially useful in conjunction with ensuring actual delivery of a ventricular pacing regime (e.g., cardiac resynchronization therapy or “CRT”).
摘要:
The present invention relates to monitoring septal wall motion of the atrial and/or ventricular chambers of a heart for optimizing cardiac pacing intervals based on signals derived from said wall motion. At least one lead of medical device is equipped with a motion sensor adapted to couple to septal tissue. The device receives and may post-process (e.g., suitably filter, rectify and/or integrate) motion signals to determine acceleration, velocity or displacement. During pacing interval optimization the wall motion is measured for many pacing intervals and the pacing interval setting(s) that produce minimal wall motion are implemented for therapy delivery. In addition, the present invention provides methods for periodically determining whether to cease or resume delivery of a bi-ventricular pacing therapy to a patient that may have experienced beneficial reverse remodeling of the heart.
摘要:
In bi-ventricular pacing devices (including CRT devices) analysis of myocardial electrogram signals in one ventricle (e.g., a left ventricle, or “LV”) can be used to infer capture or loss-of-capture (LOC) of an earlier stimulus pulse in the same ventricle, on a continuous (every pacing cycle), triggered, aperiodic and/or periodic basis. Rather than using an evoked-response principle as has been the basis of capture detection in prior art and other systems, a principle employed via the present invention uses evidence of inter-ventricular conduction (i.e., from the opposite chamber) and/or atrio-ventricular conduction as evidence of LOC, since a non-capturing pacing stimulus provided to a first chamber will allow the myocardial tissue of the first chamber to remain non-refractory and thus inter-ventricular and atrio-ventricular wavefront propagation and conduction can commence and be detected thereby revealing whether LOC has occurred.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a device and method for monitoring for sleep disordered breathing or other types of disordered breathing such as Cheyne-Stokes breathing. More specifically, a device and method for detecting disordered breathing is provided that monitors a physiological parameter, which becomes cyclical due to apnea-hyperpnea (or arousal) alternation and provides the basis for the determination of a number of breathing disorder metrics.
摘要:
Techniques are described for performing an extended capture detection test after detecting inadequate capture during a first capture detection test. An example system includes an implantable medical device that delivers pacing pulses to a patient, that periodically performs a first capture detection test to detect capture or loss of capture of the pacing pulses, and that detects inadequate capture during the first capture detection test, wherein in response to detecting the inadequate capture, the implantable medical device performs a second capture detection test that is longer than the first test. The system also includes a programmer device that programs the implantable medical device and that retrieves data from the implantable medical device corresponding to the second capture detection test. The example system may conserve battery power and prevent loss of current by performing the extended capture detection test only after detection of inadequate capture during the first test.
摘要:
An implantable medical device system and method in which the implantable device is adapted to operate in a minimum ventricular pacing mode. The device delivers cardiac pacing pulses in a first pacing mode during a normal mode of operation and upon detecting myocardial ischemia alters the first pacing mode in response to the myocardial ischemia detection.