摘要:
A personal health monitoring and care system includes at least one diagnostic device (2) implanted in a person (1), a data communication device (4) associated to the diagnostic device (2) for communicating relevant personal health data collected by the diagnostic device (2) to an external data information retrieval device (5), which processes and presents said relevant personal health data to the person (1) via information output means (6), wherein the person (1) according to the relevant personal health data perceived from the information output means (6) is able to start a health relevant action.
摘要:
An active medical implantable device with at least two diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions is constructed from separate active implant modules (2 to 7) which are adapted to the respective desired functions and can be coupled to each other.
摘要:
An active medical implantable device with at least two diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions is constructed from separate active implant modules (2 to 7) which are adapted to the respective desired functions and can be coupled to each other.
摘要:
A medical therapy system has logic and/or signal processing stages between sensors on the input side and therapy applicators on the output side. A signal parameter is determined from the input signals using the logic/processing stages, and/or an indicator signal is determined from the input signals using a logic/processing module consisting of several logic/processing stages. The indicator signal is a measure of the probability of a future event requiring therapy, or a measure of the success of the therapy.
摘要:
A stent has a surface with an irregular coating formed on that surface. The irregular coating provides coating islands, especially coating islands that are substantially round. In some embodiments, the coating islands are arranged at a greater spacing in regions involving a greater degree of local stretching of the stent surface upon stretching of the stent than in regions involving a lesser degree of local stretching of the stent surface. In other embodiments, the coating islands are smaller in regions involving a greater degree of local stretching of the stent surface upon stretching of the stent than in regions involving a lesser degree of local stretching of the stent surface.
摘要:
The invention concerns an implantable defibrillator (1) comprising a chargeable voltage source (2) and a pulse generator (3) which is formed from a voltage multiplier (5) and a capacitor (4) chargeable to the defibrillation voltage. Provided between the capacitor (4) and the voltage source (2) is a line connection (6) by way of which electrical energy which has not been consumed or which is not required for the tissue stimulation procedure can be returned from the capacitor to the voltage source.
摘要:
An apparatus for rejection diagnostics after organ transplantations is provided withan extracorporal base station with a high frequency transmitter and receiver unit, anda telemetric rejection sensor implantable in a patient's body, comprisinga high frequency receiver unit for receiving high frequency signals from the base station,a rectifier and decoder unit for converting the high frequency signals received into a supply voltage and control records for the rejection sensor,an energy storage for storing the supply voltage,a control unit for controlling the measuring processes within the apparatus,a sensor arrangement controlled by the control unit and to be brought into contact with the organ to be monitored and having measuring electrodes for measuring rejection-specific variables,an encoder unit for converting the measured variables into corresponding data signals, as well asa high frequency emitter unit for transmitting the data signals produced by the encoder unit to the extracorporal base station.
摘要:
A method for processing a signal characteristic of cardiac activity in the atrium (A) and/or ventricle (V) of a heart (H) and for evaluating this signal with a view to obtaining a control signal for a cardiac pacemaker and/or defibrillator (3) can be carried out by: receiving a time dependent signal from at least one intracardial signal sensor (1, 2) in the atrium and/or ventricle; feeding the signal picked up by each signal sensor (1, 2) to a read and evaluation circuit (6) with a threshold characteristic; comparing the signals with a detection threshold; evaluating the result of the comparison to obtain an indication as to the presence of normal sinus-type cardiac activity or fibrillations; and producing the control signal, which characterizes the comparison result. The signal from the at least one sensor (1, 2) is fed to a first input stage (8, 11) which has a first adjustable detection threshold (TS(A), TS(V) that is constant in time and to a second input stage (9, 10) which has a second adjustable detection threshold TL(A), TL(V) that can be adjusted independently of the first detection threshold but is constant in time once set. The signal from the at least one intracardial signal sensor is processed in these first and second input stages.
摘要:
A therapy device having at least one sensor for detecting a variable that n be measured on the body of a patient in the application of a predetermined therapy, and for outputting a corresponding measured value, an evaluating and control device that is connected to the output of the sensor, and a therapy device that is connected to the output of the evaluating and control device and is configured for realizing different therapies as a function of the association of the value of the measured variable with a predetermined value range, with the evaluating and control device having a range-limit memory, a comparator unit for associating the measured value of the variable with one of the value ranges, a therapy memory having at least two separately-addressable memory regions for storing at least two different values of the therapy-control variable in association with the values of the measured variable within an overlap zone between two value ranges, a past-history memory and past-history evaluation means for transmitting the address data expressing the evaluation result to the therapy memory for reading out exactly one value of the therapy-control variable.
摘要:
A stimulation electrode having a porous surface coating whose active surface area is significantly greater than the surface area defined by the geometric shape of the electrode, wherein the surface coating comprises an inert material, i.e. a material having no or only a very slight oxidation tendency, wherein the material of the surface coating is formed from an inert element, an inert chemical compound and/or an inert alloy, and the active surface area, by virtue of its fractal-like geometry, is greater by a factor of at least one thousand than the surface area defined by the basic geometric shape of the electrode.