Atrial defibrillation system including a portable audible speech communication device

Patent 6006132 Issued on December 21, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 15, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 060544 filed on 04/15/1998

US Classes:

607/5Cardioverting/defibrillating

Examiners

Primary: Kamm, William E.
Assistant: Evanisko, George R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Manghera; Peter J.

International Class

A61N 001/39

Abstract

An atrial defibrillation system monitors activity of a heart, detects atrial fibrillation, and cardioverts detected atrial fibrillation. The system includes an implantable atrial defibrillator including a plurality of operating stages for monitoring heart activity, detecting atrial fibrillation, and cardioverting atrial fibrillation, a message generator for generating messages indicative of operating stage operation status, and a transmitter to transmit the messages indicative of operating stage operating status. A nonimplantable communication device is dimensioned to be hand-held and includes a receiver for receiving the transmitted messages indicative of operating stage operation status, an addressable memory for storing a plurality of voice signals, a decoder responsive to received messages indicative of operating stage operation status for addressing selected ones of the stored voice signals, and a converter for converting the selected voice signals to audible sound.