Circuit for monitoring a heart and for effecting cardioversion of a
needy heart
    1.
    发明授权
    Circuit for monitoring a heart and for effecting cardioversion of a needy heart 失效
    监测心脏和进行心脏复律的电路

    公开(公告)号:US4184493A

    公开(公告)日:1980-01-22

    申请号:US878006

    申请日:1978-02-15

    摘要: Disclosed are two embodiments of a circuit for analyzing the ECG signals of a heart and for delivering a cardioverting pulse of energy to the heart if the heart is in an arrhythmic state in need of cardioversion. In the first embodiment, the ECG is filtered by a high pass filter to provide the derivative of the ECG, is reviewed by a window detector to determine the average time that the input ECG spends at high slope, and then the average occurrence of high slope segments is compared with a predetermined reference to determine whether the ECG is normal. Cardioversion is effected if the ECG is abnormal. In the second embodiment, an absolute value circuit and a level comparator is used in place of the window detector. The input ECG is normalized by an automatic gain control where the AGC voltage is derived from the ECG signals after high pass filtration.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于分析心脏的ECG信号的电路的两个实施例,并且如果心脏处于需要心脏复律的心律失调状态,则将心脏的心脏转复脉冲递送到心脏。 在第一实施例中,通过高通滤波器对ECG进行滤波以提供ECG的导数,由窗口检测器进行检查,以确定输入ECG在高斜率处花费的平均时间,然后平均出现高斜率 将段与预定参考值进行比较,以确定ECG是否正常。 如果心电图异常,则进行心脏复律。 在第二实施例中,使用绝对值电路和电平比较器代替窗口检测器。 输入ECG通过自动增益控制进行归一化,其中AGC电压从高通滤波后的ECG信号导出。

    Command atrial cardioverting device
    2.
    发明授权
    Command atrial cardioverting device 失效
    指挥心律转复装置

    公开(公告)号:US3952750A

    公开(公告)日:1976-04-27

    申请号:US464180

    申请日:1974-04-25

    摘要: An externally controlled implantable electronic device for delivering a cardioverting pulse of energy to the atrium of an ailing heart. In one embodiment, the device is particularly suited for use when the patient visits the office of his physician, and contemplates the transmission of both information and powering energy through the skin of the patient. In another embodiment, the device can be readily operated at home, by the patient, and without the intervention of the physician. Here, the source of energy is permanently implanted.

    摘要翻译: 外部控制的可植入电子装置,用于将心律转移的能量脉冲递送到有心脏的心房。 在一个实施例中,该装置特别适合于当患者访问他的医生的办公室时使用,并且考虑信息的传递和通过患者的皮肤供电能量。 在另一个实施例中,该装置可以容易地在家中由患者操作,而不需要医师的介入。 在这里,永久植入能源。

    Command atrial cardioverter
    3.
    发明授权
    Command atrial cardioverter 失效
    指挥房心律转复

    公开(公告)号:US4572191A

    公开(公告)日:1986-02-25

    申请号:US581229

    申请日:1984-02-23

    摘要: An externally controlled implantable electronic device for delivering a cardioverting pulse of energy to an ailing heart. A defibrillator produces a first signal when its storage device is fully charged and ready to be discharged, and a second signal when a predetermined characteristic of an ECG signal is detected. An actuator is provided for determining the presence of both of these signals. If during a predetermined time period, there is a simultaneous occurrence of the first and second signals, then the defibrillator will be activated to deliver the cardioverting shock to the heart. In the absence of either of the two signals, the defibrillator will not deliver a shock.

    摘要翻译: 外部控制的可植入电子设备,用于将心脏转换的能量脉冲传递给有困难的心脏。 除颤器当其存储装置完全充电并准备放电时产生第一信号,并且当检测到ECG信号的预定特性时产生第二信号。 提供用于确定这两个信号的存在的致动器。 如果在预定时间段内存在第一和第二信号的同时发生,则除颤器将被激活以向心脏递送心脏复律。 在没有两个信号中的任一个的情况下,除颤器不会产生震动。

    Implantable heart stimulator and stimulation method
    4.
    发明授权
    Implantable heart stimulator and stimulation method 失效
    植入式心脏刺激器和刺激方法

    公开(公告)号:US4407288A

    公开(公告)日:1983-10-04

    申请号:US243801

    申请日:1981-03-16

    IPC分类号: A61N1/362 A61N1/372 A61N1/39

    摘要: An implantable heart stimulator and related method calls for the determination of a given heart condition from among a plurality of conditions, the selection of at least one mode of operation for treating the determined condition, and the execution of the mode of operation selected, so as to treat the determined condition. In one embodiment of the invention, wherein a plurality of modes of operation for treating the various conditions are provided, the implantable heart stimulator includes processors, each processor being designed to efficiently execute a respective group of modes of operation. A further embodiment of the present invention calls for the implantable heart stimulator to be implemented by at least one programmable microprocessor. A still further embodiment calls for the provision of a data input/output channel, by means of which data can be provided to and retrieved from the implantable heart stimulator. Operations carried out by the implantable heart stimulator includes cardiac pacing, cardioversion, and automatic defibrillation. In a further embodiment of the implantable heart stimulator and related method, sensing circuitry is provided to determine the presence or absence of an R-wave of the heart, the absence of which causes a pacing operation to be implemented, further sensing circuitry being provided to determine the presence or absence of a forced R-wave of the heart, the absence of a forced R-wave causing ventricular defibrillation to be implemented.

    摘要翻译: 可植入心脏刺激器和相关方法需要从多个条件中确定给定的心脏状况,选择用于治疗所确定的病症的至少一种手术模式以及选择的手术模式的执行,以便 治疗确定的病情。 在本发明的一个实施例中,其中提供了用于治疗各种条件的多种操作模式,可植入心脏刺激器包括处理器,每个处理器被设计成有效地执行相应的一组操作模式。 本发明的另一实施例要求可植入心脏刺激器由至少一个可编程微处理器实现。 另一实施例要求提供数据输入/输出通道,通过该数据输入/输出通道可以向可植入心脏刺激器提供数据和从可植入心脏刺激器检索数据。 由可植入心脏刺激器进行的手术包括心脏起搏,心脏复律和自动除颤。 在可植入心脏刺激器和相关方法的另一实施例中,提供感测电路以确定心脏的R波的存在或不存在,其中不存在可导致起搏操作被实现,将进一步的感测电路提供给 确定心脏的强制R波的存在或不存在,不执行导致心室除颤的强制R波。

    Cardioverting device with stored energy selecting means and discharge
initiating means, and related method
    5.
    发明授权
    Cardioverting device with stored energy selecting means and discharge initiating means, and related method 失效
    具有存储能量选择装置和放电启动装置的心律转移装置及相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US4316472A

    公开(公告)日:1982-02-23

    申请号:US65228

    申请日:1979-08-09

    摘要: An externally controlled implantable electronic device for delivering a cardioverting pulse of energy to the atrium of an ailing heart. In one embodiment, the device is particularly suited for use when the patient visits the office of his physician, and contemplates the transmission of both information and powering energy through the skin of the patient. In another embodiment, the device can be readily operated at home, by the patient, and without the intervention of the physician. Here, the source of energy is permanently implanted.

    摘要翻译: 外部控制的可植入电子装置,用于将心律转移的能量脉冲递送到有心脏的心房。 在一个实施例中,该装置特别适合于当患者访问他的医生的办公室时使用,并且考虑信息的传递和通过患者的皮肤供电能量。 在另一个实施例中,该装置可以容易地在家中由患者操作,而不需要医师的介入。 在这里,永久植入能源。

    Method and apparatus for monitoring heart activity, detecting
abnormalities, and cardioverting a malfunctioning heart
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for monitoring heart activity, detecting abnormalities, and cardioverting a malfunctioning heart 失效
    用于监测心脏活动的方法和装置,检测异常,以及心脏复苏心脏

    公开(公告)号:US4202340A

    公开(公告)日:1980-05-13

    申请号:US878005

    申请日:1978-02-15

    摘要: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for monitoring heart activity, for indicating or detecting abnormalities in such activity, and for taking corrective measures to return an arrhythmic heart to normal sinus rhythm. In one embodiment, monitoring and detecting are accomplished by developing a probability density function from ECG signals, or by sampling at least two portions of a probability density function. In another embodiment, a phase lock loop circuit is utilized to indicate fibrillation by the loop's inability to lock onto R--R interval signals. And in still another embodiment, cardiac electrodes are used to sense pulsatile impedance changes, absent in the presence of fibrillation. Also disclosed is a two-stage detector whose second stage is brought out of a stand-by state only after an arrhythmic condition is indicated by the first stage.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于监测心脏活动的方法和装置,用于指示或检测此类活动中的异常,并采取矫正措施使心律失常心脏恢复正常窦性心律。 在一个实施例中,通过从ECG信号开发概率密度函数或通过对概率密度函数的至少两部分进行采样来实现监视和检测。 在另一个实施例中,使用锁相环电路来指示环路无法锁定到R-R间隔信号上的原纤化。 并且在另一个实施例中,心脏电极用于感测在存在原纤维化时不存在的脉动阻抗变化。 还公开了两级检测器,其仅在第一级指示了心律不齐的状态之后,使其第二级脱离待用状态。

    Implantable electrodes for accomplishing ventricular defibrillation and
pacing and method of electrode implantation and utilization
    7.
    发明授权
    Implantable electrodes for accomplishing ventricular defibrillation and pacing and method of electrode implantation and utilization 失效
    用于实现心室除颤和起搏的植入式电极和电极植入和利用的方法

    公开(公告)号:US4030509A

    公开(公告)日:1977-06-21

    申请号:US620026

    申请日:1975-09-30

    IPC分类号: A61N1/05 A61N1/39 A61N1/36

    CPC分类号: A61N1/3918 A61N1/0587

    摘要: Disclosed are several embodiments of an electrode system for ventricular defibrillation, and the methods of using and implanting the electrode system. In one embodiment, the electrodes are in a generally base-apex configuration having a split conformal base electrode residing above the base of the ventricles (a transecting plane separating the atria from the ventricles) in the region of the atria and a conformal apex electrode in the form of a rotated conic section residing at the apex of the heart. In another embodiment, defibrillation is accomplished by the apex electrode acting against a catheter electrode situated high in the heart or in the superior vena cava.The electrodes themselves are in the form of planar metallic mesh elements adapted to lie in contact with body tissue on an active surface, insulated on the opposite surface. In another embodiment, the conductive portions of the respective electrodes are developed from metallic plates, exposed on one surface and insulated on the other. The electrodes may be split, or may entirely surround the base and apex of the heart.The disclosed electrode system is well adapted for easy implantation during an open heart surgery, or in a separate operation which can be performed in the mediastinal space without intrusion of the pleural space. The electrode system may be implanted for immediate stand-by defibrillation, or may be implanted during open heart surgery, used for post-operative monitoring, pacing and defibrillation, should the need arise, and then subcutaneously implanted for future association with an automatic defibrillating pulse generator. When employed after open heart surgery, the electrode system is preferably equipped with independent atrial and ventricular pacer electrodes.Also disclosed are techniques for fixing the electrode system to the surrounding body tissue, and electrode leads which may be removed after the implanted electrodes have served their desired function, without disturbing the electrodes themselves.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于心室除颤的电极系统的几个实施例,以及使用和植入电极系统的方法。 在一个实施例中,电极处于大致基部顶点形状,其具有位于心房的区域中的心室的基部(在心房与心室分开的截面)之上的分裂的适形基底电极,以及保形顶点电极 居住在心脏顶点的旋转锥体部分的形式。 在另一个实施例中,除颤是通过顶点电极来实现的,所述顶点电极作用在位于心脏高处或上腔静脉的导管电极上。

    Arrhythmia recorder for use with an implantable defibrillator
    8.
    发明授权
    Arrhythmia recorder for use with an implantable defibrillator 失效
    用于植入式除颤器的心律失常记录仪

    公开(公告)号:US4223678A

    公开(公告)日:1980-09-23

    申请号:US902763

    申请日:1978-05-03

    摘要: A device for recording and subsequently reproducing information, such as desired portions of an ECG signal produced by a heart prior to and during the occurrence of a disturbance in cardiac electrical activity. Two basic embodiments of the inventive recorder are contemplated. One embodiment is fully implantable and is encased with sensing and defibrillating electronics. With this embodiment, a low-power, low-capacity, continually updated recorder is continually operative, and a high-capacity stand-by recorder is actuated upon the sensing of fibrillation. An external device is used to retrieve by telemetry, the information stored in the implanted recorder. The second embodiment of the inventive recorder is an external device which has external electrodes for associating with the patient; ECG information is transmitted to the recorder unit by telemetry. Here, because power consumption is not so critical as with the implantable embodiment, a delay-type continually updated memory is continuously operative. Then, when any one of several types of arrhythmias is sensed, or when a defibrillating pulse is delivered, the data in the memory is "permanently" recorded on magnetic tape. Either embodiment may be used with an implantable defibrillator to record and subsequently reproduce information relating to the operation of the implantable defibrillator. The second embodiment also has an alarm capability to warn the patient should there be an interruption in telemetric transmission.

    摘要翻译: 用于记录和随后再现信息的装置,例如在心脏电活动干扰发生之前和期间由心脏产生的ECG信号的期望部分。 预期本发明的记录器的两个基本实施例。 一个实施例是完全可植入的,并且包含感测和去纤颤电子器件。 利用该实施例,低功率,低容量的连续更新的记录器是连续操作的,并且在感测原纤维化时启动高容量备用记录器。 使用外部设备通过遥测来检索存储在植入式记录器中的信息。 本发明的记录器的第二实施例是具有用于与患者相关联的外部电极的外部装置; 通过遥测将ECG信息传送到记录器单元。 这里,因为与可植入实施例相比功耗不那么关键,延迟型连续更新的存储器是连续可操作的。 然后,当检测到几种类型的心律失常中的任何一种时,或者当递送去纤颤脉冲时,存储器中的数据被“永久地”记录在磁带上。 任一实施例可以与可植入除颤器一起使用以记录和随后再现与可植入除颤器的操作有关的信息。 第二实施例还具有警报能力,以在遥测传输中断时警告患者。

    Method and system for monitoring the heart of a patient
    9.
    发明授权
    Method and system for monitoring the heart of a patient 失效
    用于监测患者心脏的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US5522396A

    公开(公告)日:1996-06-04

    申请号:US101199

    申请日:1993-07-29

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61B5/0402

    摘要: The present invention pertains to a system for monitoring the health condition of a patient, such as the condition of the patient's heart. The system comprises a patient station having means for monitoring a predetermined bodily function of the patient and a patient transmitter for transmitting information relating to the bodily function. The system is also comprised of a secondary system remote from the patient at the patient station having means for activating the patient station such that information relating to the monitored bodily function can be transmitted from the patient station to the secondary station. The secondary station is in communication with the patient station. The present invention also pertains to a method of monitoring the health condition of a patient. The method comprises the steps of providing the patient with a device for monitoring a predetermined bodily function of the patient at a patient station. Then there is the step of activating the patient station from the secondary station remote from the patient at the patient station such that information relating to the predetermined bodily function of the patient can be transmitted to the secondary station.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及用于监测患者的健康状况的系统,例如患者心脏的状况。 该系统包括具有用于监视患者的预定身体功能的装置的患者站和用于发送与身体功能相关的信息的患者发射器。 该系统还包括远离病人站的患者的辅助系统,其具有用于激活患者站的装置,使得可以将与所监视的身体功能相关的信息从患者站发送到次站。 次站与患者站通信。 本发明还涉及一种监测患者健康状况的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤:向患者提供用于在病人站监测患者的预定身体功能的装置。 然后,从患者站的远离患者的次站激活病人站,使与病人的预定身体功能有关的信息能够被发送到次站。

    Injector control
    10.
    发明授权
    Injector control 失效
    喷油器控制

    公开(公告)号:US4812724A

    公开(公告)日:1989-03-14

    申请号:US670525

    申请日:1984-11-13

    IPC分类号: A61M5/00 A61M5/172 G05B11/28

    CPC分类号: A61M5/172

    摘要: A control system for an angiographic injector which precisely regulates the speed of a motor used to expel contrast media from a syringe. The control system is centered around a microprocessor which receives commands from the operator via a keyboard, and then regulates the speed of the motor by supplying drive command pulses to a circuit which integrates the difference in frequency between the command pulses and another pulse train whose frequency is proportional to actual motor speed. The control system also includes a velocity loop which uses the motor back EMF to supply an analog voltage also proportional to motor speed to a difference amplifier in a conventional velocity loop. The system is a dual loop controller where the second loop provides approximate speed control, while the first loop provides a "velocity correction" voltage required to bring the system to zero steady state speed error. Motor speed pulses are provided by an incremental encoder, the pulses from which are counted by the microprocessor to limit the volume of fluid injected. Various safety systems guard the injectors performance and help prevent over volume injections. These systems are part of the velocity control and are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于血管造影注射器的控制系统,其精确地调节用于从注射器排出造影剂的马达的速度。 控制系统以微处理器为中心,微处理器通过键盘接收来自操作者的命令,然后通过向驱动命令脉冲提供驱动命令脉冲来调节速度,该电路将指令脉冲与另一个脉冲序列之间的频率差集成在一起,其频率 与实际电机转速成正比。 控制系统还包括一个速度回路,其使用马达反电动势将常数速度回路中的电动机速度成比例的模拟电压提供给差分放大器。 该系统是双回路控制器,其中第二回路提供近似速度控制,而第一回路提供使系统处于零稳态速度误差所需的“速度校正”电压。 电机速度脉冲由增量式编码器提供,微处理器对脉冲进行计数,以限制注入的流体体积。 各种安全系统可以保护注射器的性能,并有助于防止过量的注射。 这些系统是速度控制的一部分,并且也被公开。