Abstract:
A system and method for detecting and treating symptoms of early decompensation utilizing a cardiac rhythm management. The system applies an electrical stimulus to the patient's heart at a first set of pacing parameters including a lower rate limit (LRL) setting, and acquires a coronary venous pressure (CVP) signal from a pressure sensor implanted in a coronary vein of the patient. An average coronary venous end diastolic pressure (CV-EDP) value is calculated from the CVP signal. The system monitors the average CV-EDP value over a predetermined interval, and dynamically adjusts the LRL setting responsive to the detection of a first or a second predetermined event based on the average CV-EDP value.
Abstract:
Various embodiments provide an implantable medical device comprising a detector, a neural stimulator, and a controller. The detector is configured to detect a pathological condition indicated for an acute neural stimulation therapy. The neural stimulator is capable of delivering a chronic neural stimulation therapy and the acute neural stimulation therapy. The controller is configured to control the neural stimulator to provide the chronic neural stimulation therapy, receive an indicator from the detector that the pathological condition is detected, and control the neural stimulator to integrate the acute neural stimulation therapy with the chronic neural stimulation therapy in response to the indicator.
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Pulse detonation combustors of valveless construction. One valveless pulse detonation combustor, having a tube with a closed end and an open end, is constructed with a flame accelerator within the tube, adjacent the open end. A valveless, apertured flow restrictor is positioned between the flame accelerator and the closed end of the tube. A sparking device is positioned within the tube, between the flow restrictor and the flame accelerator. Valveless fuel and air ports are positioned between the flow restrictor and the closed end of the tube. Substantially right-angle manifold passageways are in communication with each of the ports.
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A low cost patterned spinning disk is disclosed for achieving relatively rapid discrete optical phase shifts for an optical beam. The invention is particularly useful in a 5 spectral domain optical coherence tomography system. The disk contains stepped patterns of different heights and/or refractive index distribution such that as it spins, an optical beam passing through or being reflected by the disk will experience different discrete optical phase delays. The disk can be operated as a phase shifter or it can be operated in synchronization with an intensity modulating chopper disk or a direct 10 intensity modulation of the light source. The disk can also contain intensity modulating patterns such that both phase shifting and intensity modulation can be achieved at the same time. Various possible methods are also disclosed for the fabrication of the disk.
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This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for generating a stimulation energy to provide His-bundle stimulation for a cardiac cycle, receiving electrical information from the heart over at least a portion of the cardiac cycle, determining a characteristic of at least a portion of the received electrical information for the cardiac cycle, and classifying the cardiac cycle using the determined characteristic.
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Multi-layer articles are disclosed which include, a polypropylene-based film, and a layer on at least one surface of the polypropylene-based film including an ethylene-based material containing a copolymer of ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin comomoner with a density of no greater than 0.90 g/cm3 and a polydispersity index of between 1 and 4, wherein the multi-layer article is biaxially stretched. In some embodiments the multi-layer article exhibits desirable optical properties.
Abstract translation:公开了多层制品,其包括基于聚丙烯的膜,以及在聚丙烯基膜的至少一个表面上的层,其包含乙烯基材料,其含有乙烯和至少一种α-烯烃共聚单体的共聚物与 密度不大于0.90g / cm 3,多分散指数在1和4之间,其中多层制品被双轴拉伸。 在一些实施方案中,多层制品显示出期望的光学性质。
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For the pre-operative calculation of the power of an intraocular lens, three input parameters are needed: the axial length of the eye (AL), the refractive power of the cornea, and the distance between the front of the cornea and the back focal plane of the intraocular lens, the so-called effective lens position (ELP). The invention shows a novel approach to the determination of the ELP.
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The present invention generally provides an apparatus and method for processing and transferring substrates in a multi-chamber processing system that has the capability of receiving and performing single substrate processing steps performed in parallel, while using the many favorable aspects of batch processing. Embodiments of the invention described herein are adapted to maximize system throughput, reduce system cost, reduce cost per substrate during processing, increase system reliability, improve the device yield on the processed substrates, and reduce system footprint. In one embodiment, the cluster tool is adapted to perform a wet/clean process sequence in which various substrate cleaning processes are performed on a substrate in the cluster tool.
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Methods and devices used to classify cardiac events based on morphological analysis of sensed signals are described. A signal comprising a cardiac signal component and a noise signal component is sensed. The sensed signal is processed to preferentially alter morphology of the cardiac signal component. The altered morphology of the cardiac signal component enhances detection of one or more features of the cardiac signal component. The features of the cardiac signal component are detected and the cardiac event is classified using the detected features. Processing the sensed signal may involve the use of adaptable signal processing parameters. For example, the signal processing parameters may be selected to accentuate one or more desirable features of the cardiac signal component or to mitigate one or more undesirable features of the cardiac signal component.
Abstract:
The present invention generally provides an apparatus and method for processing and transferring substrates in a multi-chamber processing system that has the capability of receiving and performing single substrate processing steps performed in parallel, while using the many favorable aspects of batch processing. Embodiments of the invention described herein are adapted to maximize system throughput, reduce system cost, reduce cost per substrate during processing, increase system reliability, improve the device yield on the processed substrates, and reduce system footprint. In one embodiment, the cluster tool is adapted to perform a wet/clean process sequence in which various substrate cleaning processes are performed on a substrate in the cluster tool.