摘要:
A device for detecting hemodynamic conditions in a heart, in particular conditions corresponding to dangerous arrhythmias contains a sensing unit for a physiological variable, such as blood pressure, the unit emitting a signal on the basis of the variable having an average value, a signal conditioning unit connected to the sensing unit, a calculation unit connected to the signal conditioning unit and a comparator after the calculation unit. The calculation unit is devised to calculate a variability measure relative to the signal's average value, the variability measure being correlated to average blood pressure, and the variability measure is compared in the comparator to an adjustable threshold value corresponding to a specific hemodynamic condition, whereupon the comparator emits an indication signal when the variability measure falls below the threshold value.
摘要:
A rate-responsive heart stimulator with a variable stimulation interval contains a measurement device which generates a measurement signal corresponding to the volume of blood in a heart during the blood-filling phase (diastole) and a comparator which compares the measurement signal with a defined threshold value corresponding to a defined degree of blood filling. The comparator generates a control signal when the measurement signal reaches the threshold value, the control signal representing the time elapsing since the last stimulation pulse, and controlling the heart stimulator's stimulation interval.
摘要:
Implantable medical device comprising a device for stimulating tissue contractions with adjustable stimulation intensity, whereby the stimulation intensity is set such that a stimulated event is detected after stimulation with a detector device. The detector device detects stimulated tissue contractions in a signal corresponding to the chronological curve of the electrical impedance of the tissue to be stimulated.
摘要:
A device for analyzing the function of a heart, containing a measurement unit for generating a first measurement signal related to a first electrical or mechanical heart variable and an evaluation unit for evaluating the measurement signal, further contains a circuitry for generating a parameter signal related to a heart variable, the evaluation unit analyzing the related values for the measurement signal and the parameter signal. The device can be used for detecting a number of functional aberrations, such as bradycardia, tachyarrhythmia, retrograde conduction, ischemia and ectopia, and for controlling pacemakers and defibrillators.
摘要:
In a method and apparatus for detecting ventricular fibrillation, a measured impedance signal, dependent on the blood volume in the heart, is evaluated, and ventricular fibrillation is assumed to be present if the level of the measured impedance signal falls below a predetermined threshold. This is based on the perception that as the heart fills with blood, given the presence of ventricular fibrillation, the level of the measured impedance signal will decrease. The apparatus also includes circuitry for treating the detected ventricular fibrillation.
摘要:
An implantable cardiac stimulator has an atrial electrode for placement in the atrium of a heart and a ventricular electrode for placement in the ventricle of the heart. In order to sense stimulated events in the heart, a detector is connected to both of the electrodes to measure electrical heart signals between them.
摘要:
A temporarily implantable electrode device, intended for sensing electrical signals from living tissue, has an insulating sheath of resorbable material, and at least one non-toxic, liquid conductor contained inside the insulating sheath in order to form an electrical conductor which, via an electrode adapted for interaction with living tissue can sense and carry electrical signals from living tissue to a medical apparatus connected to the electrode device. The resorbable material ultimately dissolves completely into the body of the subject in whom the electrode device was temporarily implanted, and the non-toxic, liquid conductor simultaneously mixes with other fluids, making explantation of the electrode device unnecessary.
摘要:
Defibrillation of a heart ensues using a charging capacitor connected via a controllable switch arrangement to electrodes arranged in the region of the heart, the switch arrangement being operated to discharge across the heart tissue. In order to limit the initial current to a value not significantly exceeding the minimum value necessary to effect defibrillation, the controllable switch arrangement includes two contacts between which a contact maker, for example a mercury drop, is disposed, which is deformable under the influence of an electro-mechanical transducer. The transducer is arranged such that the contact maker connects the two contacts to one another given a prescribed excursion of the electro-mechanical transducer and, given a change of the excursion departing from the prescribed excursion, varies the electrical resistance between the contacts. The drive of the controllable switch arrangement ensues with turn-on pulses having a pulse height that is variable for setting the desired electrical resistance between the contacts.
摘要:
An inductive motion sensor (MS) connectable to a subject (16), the motion sensor having a coil (4) and a magnet member (3) movable relative to the coil (4). The magnet member (3) has at least four magnetic poles, whereby the number of south poles (S) is equal to the number of north poles (N). The pole strength of the magnetic poles is dimensioned and the magnetic poles are located on the magnet member (3) such that the magnet member (3) is situated in a neutral equilibrium position in a uniform magnetic field with respect to the forces exerted on the magnetic poles by the magnetic field.
摘要:
A heart stimulator having a pulse generator and an electrode system, which contain at least one bipolar electrode with one pole arranged in the atrium and another pole in the ventricle, or at least two unipolar electrodes respectively arranged in the atrium and ventricle, for detecting atrial and ventricular activity includes an atrial measurement unit which is connected for measuring a signal between the two poles of the bipolar electrode, or between the two unipolar electrodes, and a ventricular measurement unit arranged to measure the signals between the ventricular pole (or electrode) and the housing of the stimulator.