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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170654 | Sequential discrimination approach for detecting treatable cardiac rhythms A system and method for use in a medical device for discriminating cardiac events establishes population-based thresholds corresponding to cardiac signal morphology metrics for discriminating between a first cardiac event and a second cardiac event. A population-bas... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155734 | Probabilistic fusion in arrhythmia diagnosis and therapy This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for characterizing a tachyarrhythmia. A method comprises obtaining a current first primary characterization of the tachyarrhythmia and a current first primary confidence level of the current first prim... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155735 | Prediction and prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery patients Systems and methods are provided for predicting the onset of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) from electrocardiogram (ECG) data representing a patient. A signal processing component determines parameters representing the activity of the heart of the patient fr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135456 | Device and method for detecting atrial fibrillation Detection of atrial fibrillation involves detecting a plurality of ventricular events and obtaining a series of probabilities of AF, each corresponding to a probability of AF for a different beat window having a plurality of ventricular events. AF onset is detected ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126540 | Single chamber cardiac stimulator A single-chamber cardiac stimulator (10) with at least partially electrically conductive housing (12) and first detection unit (52) connected via a ventricular electrode line to at least one ventricular electrode and another electrode and config... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8078272 | Systems and methods for detecting or validating signals in the presence of noise Detecting or validating signals such as cardiac beats can be performed in the presence of myopotential or other noise. An amplitude peak, which can be a candidate for a detected beat, can be used in a normalized or other weighted average, along with a preceding and ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073532 | Method and apparatus for beat alignment and comparison Methods of using a template having a template data set and template parameters to provide improved alignment of captured cardiac signal data to a stored template. More particularly, in an illustrative method, a captured cardiac signal is first configured using templ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8050751 | Periodic beat detection to detect artifacts in a cardiac electrogram Techniques for determining whether artifacts are present in a cardiac electrogram are described. According to one example, a medical device senses a cardiac electrogram via electrodes. The medical device determines a derivative, e.g., a second order derivative, the ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8024031 | Device, method and computer-readable storage medium for classifying atrial tachyarrhythmia Device for classifying tachyarrhythmia that obtains pre-defined values, monitors atrial intervals and compares lengths of each interval with pre-defined value IL, stores length of atrial interval if length is shorter than IL, in case X of most recent Y number of atr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7941207 | Cardiac monitoring Systems and techniques for monitoring cardiac activity. In one aspect, a method includes collecting information describing the variability in heart rate over a series of beats, designating variability at a lower end of physiological values as being largely irrelevan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941208 | Therapy delivery for identified tachyarrhythmia episode types Methods and systems for identifying tachyarrhythmia episode types and delivering therapy to mitigate the identified tachyarrhythmia episode types are described. Electrogram signals of cardiac activity are sensed and stored by an implantable cardiac device. Tachyarrh... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7904143 | Binary logistic mixed model for complex fractionated atrial electrogram procedures Methods and systems are provided for locating arrhythmogenic cardiac focus. A training set of electrical signal data is acquired and automatically analyzed to identify CFAE locations. The data representing the CFAE locations are and subjected to determinations of me... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7881779 | Method and apparatus for synthetically detecting ventricular fibrillation The present application discloses a complexity-based method for synthetically detecting ventricular fibrillation, which centers on complexity calculations while incorporating a plurality of feature values and thus differentiates more effectively among various types ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7826893 | Method and apparatus for generating a template for arrhythmia detection and electrogram morphology classification An implantable medical device and associated method for automatically generating morphology templates during fast cardiac rhythms, confirming a provisional template as a confirmed template, and using the confirmed template to classify subsequent detected arrhythmias... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7797037 | Method and apparatus for rate accuracy enhancement in ventricular tachycardia detection An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) executes a rate accuracy enhancement algorithm to select measured atrial and ventricular intervals for classifying a detected tachycardia based on average atrial and ventricular rates calculated from the selected atria... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7729753 | Automated analysis of a cardiac signal based on dynamical characteristics of the cardiac signal Systems and techniques relating to locating cardiac wave forms in a cardiac signal, and to detecting a physiological condition, such as ventricular fibrillation. In general, in one aspect, a machine-implemented method includes obtaining a sensed cardiac signal of an... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729754 | System and method for arrhythmia discrimination with atrial-ventricular dissociation Ventricular arrhythmias are monitored and classified based upon various criteria. One criterion is PR dissociation which is determined by comparing the PR interval in a current RR cycle to a median PR value. If the current PR interval varies too far from the median,... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7706868 | Detecting atrial fibrillation, method of and apparatus for A method and apparatus to determine possible atrial fibrillation or absence of atrial fibrillation that includes detecting pulse rhythms from a succession of time intervals each corresponding to a respective interval of time between successive pulse beats; analyzing... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706869 | Automated template generation algorithm for implantable device A method and device for generating a template that includes identifying events of a plurality of sensed events having predetermined characteristics as first selected events and generating the template from the first selected events. Events of the plurality of events... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702384 | Zoneless tachyarrhythmia detection with real-time rhythm monitoring A system including an implantable medical device (IMD). The IMD includes a ventricular contraction sensing circuit that provides a sensed ventricular contraction signal, a timer circuit that provides a ventricular time interval between ventricular contractions, and ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7680532 | Detecting atrial fibrillation, method of and apparatus for A method and apparatus to determine possible atrial fibrillation or absence of atrial fibrillation that includes detecting pulse rhythms from a succession of time intervals each corresponding to a respective interval of time between successive pulse beats; analyzing... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7650182 | Dual sensing for brady-tachy pacemaker/ICD A system detects events related to cardiac activity. The system comprises a primary cardiac signal sensing circuit, at least one secondary cardiac signal sensing circuit having a higher sensitivity than the primary sensing circuit, and a controller circuit coupled t... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647095 | Method and apparatus for verifying a determined cardiac event in a medical device based on detected variation in hemodynamic status A method and apparatus for verifying a determined cardiac event in a medical device based on detected variation in hemodynamic status that includes a plurality of sensors sensing cardiac signals, and a physiologic sensor sensing physiologic signals to generate a plu... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7596405 | Atrial fibrillation detection Atrial fibrillation is detected in an electrical signal representative of a beating heart by measuring atrial activity over a time window of three or more beats, measuring beat interval variation over the time window and combining the measures of atrial activity and... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593766 | Detector for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation A detector for atrial fibrillation and/or atrial flutter comprises an atrial input for receiving an atrial signal representing an intraatrial electrogram or a time course of an intraatrial impedance, a ventricular input for receiving a ventricular event signal compr... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7570990 | Detector for atrial fibrillation and flutter Atrial fibrillation or flutter detector having impedance unit, with measurement input, connected to atrial electrode line having electrode for unipolar measurement of atrium impedance and implemented to generate atrial impedance signal obtained in unipolar manner so... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7539536 | Cardiac rhythm management systems and methods using multiple morphology templates for discriminating between rhythms This document describes systems, devices, and methods that use multiple morphology templates for discriminating between rhythms, such as supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVTs) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs), for delivering a countershock in response to a V... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7515956 | Template based AV/VA interval comparison for the discrimination of cardiac arrhythmias An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator includes a tachycardia detection system that detects one-to-one (1:1) tachycardia, which is a tachycardia with a one-to-one relationship between atrial and ventricular contractions. When the 1:1 tachycardia is detected, the ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7474916 | Method and apparatus for discriminating ventricular and supraventricular tachyarrhythmias A system and method are provided for discriminating supra-ventricular tachycardia (SVT) from ventricular tachycardia (VT). A monitoring EGM signal is acquired during a sensing window timed according to the time of R-wave detection on a reference EGM signal. A normal... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7443303 | System and method for managing workflow A system and method for managing workflow is provided. The system includes one or more computer devices which execute workflow software to assign tasks to medical staff. The workflow software may be configured to assign tasks to persons on the medical staff based on... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444179 | Devices, systems and methods for characterization of ventricular fibrillation and for treatment of ventricular fibrillation A method of determining a state of ventricular fibrillation, includes: measuring the rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation for a period of time; creating a lagged phase space reconstruction of the measured rhythm; determining a first value related to t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440799 | Therapy-selection methods for implantable heart monitors Miniature heart-monitoring devices, such as defibrillators and cardioverters, are implanted in humans to detect and correct abnormal heart rhythms Microprocessors and stored instructions, or algorithms within these devices govern how they interpret and react to abno... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430446 | Methods and apparatuses for cardiac arrhythmia classification using morphology stability An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) includes a tachyarrhythmia detection and classification system that classifies tachyarrhythmias based on a morphological analysis of arrhythmic waveforms and a template waveform. Correlation coefficients each computed ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7421292 | System and method for controlling the recording of diagnostic medical data in an implantable medical device Techniques are provided for controlling the recording of diagnostic data, such as intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) data, so as to reduce device power consumption. In one technique, the risk of onset of an arrhythmia is evaluated and the recording of diagnostic data i... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418295 | Method and system for identifying and displaying groups of cardiac arrhythmic episodes A medical device system that receives cardiac data representing a plurality of stored arrhythmic episodes, and analyzing the cardiac data to identify and display a subset of stored arrhythmic episodes as a function of user-specified episode criteria. The medical dev... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7373203 | Cardiac rhythm management system with prevention of double counting of events A cardiac rhythm management system recognizes patterns of interval durations, distinguishing between events in different heart chambers even though signals associated with those different heart chambers are processed using a commonly shared sensing circuit. A therap... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364550 | Method and device for motion and noise immunity in hemodynamic measurement A method and device, such as an implantable cardiac device, for motion and noise immunity in hemodynamic measurement is presented. The method includes obtaining a template waveform representing hemodynamic performance of a heart during a first hemodynamic state and ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361146 | System and method for detecting abnormal respiration via respiratory parameters derived from intracardiac electrogram signals Techniques are provided for tracking patient respiration based upon intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signals or other electrical cardiac signals. Briefly, respiration patterns are detected based upon cycle-to-cycle changes in morphological features associated with in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357775 | System and method for providing demand-based Cheyne-Stokes Respiration therapy using an implantable medical device Techniques are provided for controlling therapy delivered in response to Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (CSR) or other forms of periodic breathing in an effort to reduce the likelihood of unnecessary therapy directed toward preventing sleep interruption. Following each b... | 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 |
