Method of patient initiated electro-cardiogram storage, status query and therapy activation

Patent 7515963 Issued on April 7, 2009. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 16, 2023. 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

Assignee

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

Application

No. 10738904 filed on 12/16/2003

US Classes:

607/32Communicating with pacer (e.g., telemetry)

Examiners

Primary: Layno, Carl H
Assistant: Gedeon, Brian T

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

International Class

A61N 1/37

Abstract

A handheld cardiac rhythm management device for use by a patient to request status information from an implantable pulse generating device and to request that the pulse generating device provide a rhythm altering shock to the patient's heart. The device includes a plurality of deadfront status indicator lamps on a front of a case that are visible to the patient when the controller is held in the patient's hand. The device also includes buttons on the front of the case and a telemetry circuit for bi-directional communication with the implantable pulse generating device.

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