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A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6366810 | Deterministic and jitter-free dual-chamber cardiac pacemaker A deterministic and jitter-free dual chamber brady pacemaker utilizes both a programmed microprocessor and a hardware state machine, both of which are coupled to a real time clock (RTC), random access memory (RAM) and a common escape interval timer. Time ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6349233 | Neuro-stimulation to control pain during cardioversion defibrillation A system and method for reducing the perceived pain by a patient occurring during cardioversion/defibrillation countershocks to the heart. The system comprises an electrode subsystem for positioning at least one electrode in contact with a patient, a pain... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6256534 | Implantable defibrillator with countershock synchronized to P-wave An implantable defibrillator for treating cardiac dysrhythmias in a human patient in which the delivery of electrical defibrillation countershocks to a plurality of implanted electrodes is synchronized to predetermined aspect of an atrial portion of the c... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5913878 | Tiered therapy cardiac detection system having a global counter A tiered therapy cardiac detection system is provided for a medical device that senses cardiac signals representative of beat-to-beat intervals and delivers at least one therapy in response to a detected cardiac dysrhythmia corresponding to one of a plura... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5904705 | Automatic battery-maintaining implantable cardioverter defibrillator and method for use A device and method for performing automatic battery maintenance as particularly applied in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The battery is maintained at a predetermined state-of-charge to enable charging a capacitor in the ICD to discharg... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5814090 | Implantable medical device having heat-shrink conforming shield An implantable medical device, such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), utilizes a heat-shrink conforming shield to substantially isolate internal components and circuitry from the device housing and from each other. Preferably, the shield... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5643197 | Fluid cooled and perfused tip for a catheter The invention relates to an ablation catheter which controls the temperature and reduces the coagulation of biological fluids on a tip of a catheter, prevents the impedance rise of tissue in contact with the catheter tip, and maximizes the energy transfer... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5431687 | Impedance timed defibrillation system An implantable cardiac defibrillator system, comprising: a) a charge storage element, b) a switching element connected to the charge storage element, c) a processor capable of detecting a defibrillation event in a patient, d) patient connection electrodes connected to t... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5425749 | Preemptive cardioversion therapy in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator A method for use with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator apparatus of the type having a microprocessor-based control circuit, a charging circuit communicatively connected to the control circuit, a small charge storage capacitor, a large charge stor... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5409008 | Process and apparatus for mapping of tachyarrhythmia Process and apparatus for mapping of tachyarrhythmia, such as ventricular tachycardia. The apparatus is a mapping catheter which is a polymer member including a plurality of electrodes at a distal end. An upper ring is divided into at least bipolar poles ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5290277 | Multi-fiber linear array laser catheter connector A multi-fiber linear array laser catheter for use in irradiation of biological tissue where a circular laser beam is optically transformed to coincide with the cross-section of a linear array of optical fibers. The transformed laser beams are focused onto... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5281212 | Laser catheter with monitor and dissolvable tip A laser catheter for irradiation of human myocardial tissue containing a fixed feedback mechanism for monitoring the damage created by laser irradiation, and which is usable with standard catheters designed for angiography and angioplasty. Means for sensi... | 01/25/1994 |
