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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180439 | Ischemia detection using intra-cardiac signals An implanted cardiac rhythm management device is disclosed that is operative to detect myocardial ischemia. This is done by evaluating electrogram features to detect an electrocardiographic change; specifically, changes in electrogram segment during the early part o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170652 | Method and apparatus for predicting acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy A method and apparatus for predicting acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy is disclosed. The method can comprise measuring a first interval during an intrinsic systolic cycle and measuring a second interval during a stimulated systolic cycle. The acut... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8131351 | System and method for correlation of patient health information and implant device data A system and method for correlating health related data for display. The system includes a medical device recording data and a display producing device which correlates the data and simultaneously displays different types of data or displays two sets of the same typ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121674 | Method and system for characterizing a representative cardiac beat using multiple templates A method and system for characterizing one beat of a patient's supraventricular rhythm are described. A plurality of templates is provided and updated using a plurality of qualified beats. Updating occurs by temporally aligning the shock channel waveforms of the tem... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103334 | Method and system for display of cardiac event intervals in a resynchronization pacemaker A cardiac rhythm management system that includes a pacemaker configured for biventricular pacing and an external programmer with an associated display for displaying electrogram data and markers representing ventricular events. Associated with each marker are intrav... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090433 | Methods and apparatus for treating disorders of the ear nose and throat Methods and apparatus for treating disorders of the ear, nose, throat or paranasal sinuses, including methods and apparatus for dilating ostia, passageways and other anatomical structures, endoscopic methods and apparatus for endoscopic visualization of structures w... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8024029 | Techniques for user-activated data retention in an implantable medical device Apparatus for storing data records associated with a medical monitoring event in a data structure. Upon indication by a patient of a possible manifestation of a neurological event, the implanted device obtains and stores data in the data record in a first data struc... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7983744 | Neural network based learning engine to adapt therapies A system for implementing a cardiac device having adaptive treatment therapies utilizing a neural network based learning engine is disclosed. The system includes an implantable cardiac device module and an external data processing system for specifying the operating... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979113 | Multi channel approach to capture verification Methods and systems involve classifying the cardiac response to pacing using a multi-channel approach. Multiple cardiac response signals are sensed via multiple sense channels. Each sense channel comprises a distinct combination of electrodes and sensing circuitry. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7945314 | System and method for emulating a surface EKG for use with transtelephonic monitoring of an implantable medical device A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes, such as by combining far-... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933643 | System and method for displaying an emulated surface EKG using an external programming device A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by the internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, the emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes. In another exampl... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917195 | Systems, methods and computer program products for heart monitoring The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring a heart. According to one embodiment, the system includes an implantable registering unit. The registering unit comprises a first controller structured to register an electr... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907992 | Method and system for pacemaker pulse detection A cardiac monitoring system is disclosed herein. The cardiac monitoring system includes a sensor adapted to collect an ECG signal that comprises a pacemaker signal and a cardiac signal. The cardiac monitoring system also includes a data acquisition module adapted to... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7844322 | System and method for correlation of patient health information and implant device data A system and method for correlating health related data for display. The system includes a medical device recording data and a display producing device which correlates the data and simultaneously displays different types of data or displays two sets of the same typ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7697977 | Method and apparatus for determining relative depolarization at multiple cardiac sensing sites A cardiac rhythm management device in which the relative depolarization times at sensing/pacing electrode sites during a cardiac contraction are determined by a bipolar sensing technique. The information gained thereby can be used to select which of the available el... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7680530 | Method and system for display of cardiac event intervals in a resynchronization pacemaker A cardiac rhythm management system that includes a pacemaker configured for biventricular pacing and an external programmer with an associated display for displaying electrogram data and markers representing ventricular events. Associated with each marker are intrav... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676261 | Method and system for enhancing pace pulses A method for enhancing pace pulses is presented. The method includes providing a set of digital electrocardiogram data comprising a plurality of pulses, wherein each pulse is of a generally constant width. Furthermore, the method includes differentiating the plurali... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7650181 | Synchronization of repetitive therapeutic interventions A medical device of the type used for assisting a user in manually delivering repetitive therapy to a patient (e.g., chest compressions or ventilations in cardiac resuscitation), the device comprising a feedback device configured to generate feedback cues to assist ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7627366 | Analysis of polarization information An exemplary method includes providing a first value indicative of electrode polarization, delivering a cardiac stimulus and determining a second value indicative of electrode polarization associated with the cardiac stimulus, comparing the second value to the first... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623911 | Method and apparatus for detection of tachyarrhythmia using cycle lengths A method and apparatus for detecting atrial arrhythmias and discriminating atrial fibrillation (AF) and organized atrial tachycardia (OAT) that includes defining a threshold detection criteria for a cluster signature evidence metric corresponding to a Lorenz distrib... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620447 | Method for assessing the contraction synchronization of a heart A method for assessing the contraction synchronization of a heart of a patient using a set of tridimensional images of the heart, the heart having a contraction cycle, the set of tridimensional images including tridimensional images of the heart acquired at successi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7603169 | Stimulation electrode with porous coating An electrode for medical applications is provided with a PtIr coating which is at least partly porous. The coating contains more than 20% iridium by weight and at least 100 ppm Pt. The coated areas of the electrode exhibit an electrochemical capacitance of more than... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599733 | Frequency domain monitoring of myocardial electrical stability Embodiments of the present invention relate to implantable systems, and methods for use therewith, for monitoring myocardial electrical stability. A patient's heart is paced for a period of time using a patterned pacing sequence that repeats every N beats, and an el... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7546157 | System and method for emulating a surface EKG using internal cardiac signals sensed by an implantable medical device A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by the internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, the emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes, such as by combin... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7529578 | Multi channel approach to capture verification Methods and systems involve classifying the cardiac response to pacing using a multi-channel approach. Multiple cardiac response signals are sensed via multiple sense channels. Each sense channel comprises a distinct combination of electrodes and sensing circuitry. ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7447540 | Systems and methods for detection of VT and VF from remote sensing electrodes Methods and systems are provided for performing ventricular arrhythmia monitoring using at least two sensing channels that are each associated with different sensing vectors, for example by different pairs of extracardiac remote sensing electrodes. Myopotential asso... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440795 | Detecting sleep disorders using an active implantable medical device An active medical device, in particular an implantable device such as a cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, cardioverter, or multisite device, including a function for determining sleep disorders. This device can collect the heartbeat rhythm in at least one heart cavi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7392086 | Implantable cardiac device and method for reduced phrenic nerve stimulation Methods and devices for reducing phrenic nerve stimulation of cardiac pacing systems involve delivering a pacing pulse to a ventricle of a heart. A transthoracic impedance signal is sensed, and a deviation in the signal resulting from the pacing pulse may be used to... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392090 | Data logging system for implantable medical device A data logging system and method in which an implantable medical device transmits logged data to an external data logging device with low energy potential signals. The implantable device generates potential signals modulated with digitally encoded data by operating ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383080 | System and method for emulating a surface EKG using internal cardiac signals sensed by an implantable medical device A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by the internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, the emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes, such as by combin... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366569 | Non-invasive method and apparatus for cardiac pacemaker pacing parameter optimization and monitoring of cardiac dysfunction A plethysmogram signal is sensed from a patient and provided to a programmer device for monitoring the condition of the patient and for optimizing pacing parameters of a cardiac device implanted in the patient. The programmer device analyzes the plethysmogram signal... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363077 | Adaptive timing interval control method for treating congestive heart failure A method of treating a heart with an implantable cardiac stimulation device involves transiently disturbing the steady state hemodynamic parameters by altering a cardiac cycle timing interval sufficient to reduce end diastolic volume for that cycle. The cardiac cycl... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359837 | Peak data retention of signal data in an implantable medical device Methods and apparatus for storing data records associated with an extreme value are disclosed. Signal data is stored in a first buffer of a set of buffers. If a local extreme value for the first buffer exceeds a global extreme value, signal data is stored in a secon... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354404 | Cardiac rhythm template generation system and method A method and system provides for generating a snapshot representative of one beat of a patient's normal cardiac rhythm. Cardiac rate channel signals and shock channel signals are sensed. A fiducial point is determined for a predefined number of the cardiac rate chan... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349732 | System and method for emulating a surface EKG using internal cardiac signals sensed by an implantable medical device A surface electrocardiogram (EKG) is emulated using signals detected by the internal leads of an implanted device. In one example, the emulation is performed using a technique that concatenates portions of signals sensed using different electrodes, such as by combin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338445 | Hard disk drive medical monitor with shock-proofing A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes at least one hard disk drive. A transmitter and receiver for produces and transmits signals. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337000 | Selection of cardiac signal features detected in multiple classification intervals for cardiac pacing response classification Cardiac devices and methods involve the detection of cardiac signals features in adjacent classification intervals. Portions of the cardiac signal features detected in adjacent classification intervals are associated and are used to classify the cardiac response to ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336998 | External discrimination between pace pulses at different heart locations This document discusses, among other things, an external device capable of independently distinguishing between pace pulses delivered by an implantable cardiac rhythm management device to different locations of a subject's heart. In one example, polarity of the pace... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337011 | System and method for enhancing cardiac signal sensing by cardiac pacemakers through genetic treatment The present invention provides delivery systems for and methods of delivering ion channel protein genetic material to cardiac cells in areas adjacent to where an electrode is to be positioned in a patient's heart to improve or correct the signal to noise ratio of ca... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336999 | Means to check the validity of heart failure surrogate parameters from evoked response using 3-D accelerometer queue In one implementation, a method is provided for detecting heart failure which includes retrieving a three-dimensional posture template corresponding to a normal evoked response. The method further includes capturing an intracardiac electrogram of an evoked response ... | 02/26/2008 |
