Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application inventions 12/05

20050288713 - Method and device for confining live neural cells cultivated on a chip of noninvasive neuroelectronic interfacing: This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain subject matter of the technical disclosure. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the...

20050288715 - Cardiac harness for treating congestive heart failure and for defibrillating and/or pacing/sensing: A system for treating the heart includes a cardiac harness associated with a cardiac rhythm management device which includes at least one set of electrodes and a power source. At least one electrode from the at least one set of electrodes is selected for sensing heart functions and providing pacing...

20050288714 - Defibrillation pacing circuitry: Electrical circuit componentry is switchable into a defibrillator circuit to deliver a constant pacing current to a patient. The circuitry may include a constant current source inserted in a leg of the defibrillator circuit or a resistor of selected value inserted between a high voltage source and the high side...

20050288716 - Piezoelectric devices and methods for restoring normal contraction rhythm of a heart: There is provided piezoelectric devices for restoring normal contraction rhythms of a heart, or for pacing a heart, comprising a housing, a piezoelectric generator seated within the housing and having first and second electrical conductors wherein the first conductor is connected to an electrically conducting portion of the housing, an...

20050288723 - Cardiac rhythm management system with maximum tracking rate (mtr) hysteresis: A cardiac rhythm management system provides both a safe maximum pacing rate limit and a physiological maximum pacing rate limit. In one embodiment, a normal maximum tracking rate (MTR) and a hysteresis MTR are provided. The hysteresis MTR is set higher than the normal MTR and functions as a maximum...

20050288724 - Dual-chamber pacemaker system for simultaneous bi-chamber pacing and sensing: A method of pacing opposing chambers of a heart with a pacing system is provided. The pacing system comprises a first unipolar medical electrical lead having at least one first electrode configured for positioning in a first opposing chamber of the heart, a second unipolar medical electrical lead having at...

20050288719 - Far-field sensing channel for implantable cardiac device: An implantable pacemaker is provided with a far-field sensing channel which requires a reduced refractory period during the time when pacing pulses are delivered as compared with sensing channels using intra-cardiac electrodes. The far-field sensing channel may use the conductive housing of the implantable device or can and an indifferent...

20050288722 - Implantable pressure transducer system optimized for anchoring and positioning: This invention relates generally to systems and methods for optimizing the performance and minimizing complications related to implanted sensors, such as pressure sensors, for the purposes of detecting, diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease in a medical patient. Systems and methods for anchoring implanted sensors to various body structures is also...

20050288718 - Medical treatment system using biological regulation function alternate, cardiac pacing system based on the medical treatment system, blood pressure regulating system, and cardiac disease treating system: A medical treating system based on biological activities characterized by biological activity sensing means for sensing biological activity information produced by biological activities and outputting a biological activity signal, calculating means for receiving, analyzing, and processing the biological activity signals from the biological activity sensing means, calculating an organism stimulation...

20050288720 - Method and apparatus for minimizing post-infarct ventricular remodeling: A cardiac rhythm management device is configured to deliver pre-excitation pacing to one or more sites in proximity to an infarcted region of the ventricular myocardium. The pre-excitation pacing in conjunction with counterpulsation therapy serves to either prevent or minimize post-infarct remodeling....

20050288721 - Method and apparatus to modulate cellular regeneration post myocardial infarct: A system delivers cardiac pacing therapy and chemical and/or biological therapy to modulate myocardial tissue growth in a heart after myocardial infarction (MI). The system includes an agent delivery device to release one or more agents to an MI region to modulate myocardial tissue growth in that region, and a...

20050288717 - Micro integrated cardiac pacemaker and distributed cardiac pacing system: A micro integrated cardiac pacemaker includes a control unit for outputting a control signal according to cardiograph information, heart stimulating means for stimulating heart tissue in response to the control signal, cardiograph information extracting means for extracting cardiograph information and outputting it to the control unit, and a power supply...

20050288725 - Combination of electrogram and intra-cardiac pressure to discriminate between fibrillation and tachycardia: A system and method for detecting and classifying cardiac arrhythmias based on cardiac pressure signals or the combination of cardiac electrical and cardiac pressure signals. A cardiac electrogram signal is sensed to derive a cardiac rate from which an arrhythmia detection is made when the cardiac rate meets arrhythmia detection...

20050288726 - Method and device for using impedance measurements based on electrical energy of the heart: A method and a device are disclosed for evaluating the cardio-circulatory and pulmonary condition of a patient, including determining the patient's thoracic impedance based on information solely derived from the electrical energy generated by the patient's own heart....

20050288727 - Wireless sensing devices for evaluating heart performance: A system for monitoring heart performance comprises a plurality of sensing devices configured to attach to a patient's heart tissue and a controller. Each sensing device comprises a sensor configured to detect physiological data relating to heart contractility and a wireless transmitter configured to transmit data detected by the sensor....

20050288728 - Adaptive baroreflex stimulation therapy for disordered breathing: An approach to providing disordered breathing therapy includes delivering electrical stimulation therapy modifying a patient's baroreflex response. Disordered breathing therapy may be delivered in response to prediction or detection of disordered breathing events. Various conditions affecting the patient may be evaluated and the baroreflex therapy modified. The therapy may be...

20050288729 - Coordinated therapy for disordered breathing including baroreflex modulation: An approach to providing disordered breathing therapy involves the use of a plurality of therapy devices to deliver a coordinated disordered breathing therapy regimen to the patient. The plurality of disordered breathing devices includes at least a therapy device that delivers an electrical stimulation therapy modulating a patient's baroreflex response....

20050288730 - Methods and apparatus for renal neuromodulation: Methods and apparatus are provided for renal neuromodulation using a pulsed electric field to effectuate electroporation or electrofusion. It is expected that renal neuromodulation (e.g., denervation) may, among other things, reduce expansion of an acute myocardial infarction, reduce or prevent the onset of morphological changes that are affiliated with congestive...

20050288731 - Method and associated apparatus for feedback therapy: A method of audio feedback and/or visual feedback therapy includes providing a microphone operatively associated with an audio delay unit, a plurality of trans-cutaneous nerve stimulation electrodes and a power supply. A patient speaks into the microphone thereby causing a responsive electrical signal representative of the patient's speech to pass...

20050288732 - Method and system to control skeletal muscles by means of neuro-electrical coded signals: A method to control skeletal muscles generally comprising generating at least one coded waveform signal that is substantially similar to at least one coded waveform signal that is generated in the body and operative in the control of at least a first skeletal muscle and transmitting the generated waveform signal...

20050288733 - Package for an implantable medical device: The present invention is an implantable electronic device formed within a biocompatible hermetic package. Preferably the implantable electronic device is used for a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The package may include a hard hermetic box, a thin film hermetic...

20050288734 - Visual prosthesis with operational data telemetry: The present invention is a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The visual prosthesis includes means for sending operational data from an implantable visual prosthesis to an external unit. Such operational data may include electrode current, voltage or capacitance, power received...

20050288735 - Visual prosthesis with user interface: The present invention is a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The visual prosthesis includes a user interface which controls function of the visual prosthesis to optimize operation for each individual patient. The user interface controls functions such as brightness, contrast,...

20050288737 - Hard disk drive medical monitor with security encryption: 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 an enclosure surrounding the at least one hard disk drive, and a transmitter and receiver for producing and...

20050288736 - System and method for providing communications between a physically secure programmer and an external device using a cellular network: A system and method for providing communications between a physically secure programmer and an external device using a cellular network is described. A set of uniquely identifying credentials is securely maintained on a programmer configured to interface with an implantable medical device. A transient connection is automatically established between the...

20050288738 - System and method for rf wake-up of implantable medical device: A telemetry system is presented for enabling radio-frequency (RF) communications between an implantable medical device and an external device in a manner which reduces the power requirements of the implantable device by duty cycling its RF circuitry. A wakeup scheme for the implantable device is provided in which the external...

20050288743 - Implantable medical device with contactless power transfer housing: A transcutaneous recharging system for providing power to an implantable medical device comprises a primary side circuit for transmitting power in the form of magnetic flux; and a secondary side circuit integral to the implantable medical device for receiving the power transmitted from the primary side circuit and for providing...

20050288741 - Low frequency transcutaneous energy transfer to implanted medical device: An implantable medical device system advantageously utilizes low frequency (e.g., about 1-100 kHz) transcutaneous energy transfer (TET) for supplying power from an external control module to an implantable medical device, avoiding power dissipation through eddy currents in a metallic case of an implant and/or in human tissue, thereby enabling smaller...

20050288740 - Low frequency transcutaneous telemetry to implanted medical device: An implantable medical device advantageously utilizes low frequency (e.g., 100 kHz or below) for telemetry communication with an external control module avoiding power dissipation through eddy currents in a metallic case of an implant and/or in human tissue, thereby enabling smaller implants using a metallic case such as titanium and/or...

20050288739 - Medical implant having closed loop transcutaneous energy transfer (tet) power transfer regulation circuitry: An implantable medical device, such as a bi-directional infuser device for hydraulically controlling an artificial sphincter (e.g., adjustable gastric band) benefits from being remotely powered by transcutaneous energy transfer (TET), obviating the need for batteries. In order for active components in the medical device to operate, a sinusoidal power signal...

20050288742 - Transcutaneous energy transfer primary coil with a high aspect ferrite core: Adjustable gastric band implants contain a hollow elastomeric balloon with fixed end points encircling a patient's stomach just inferior to the esophago-gastric junction. These balloons can expand and contract through the introduction of saline solution into the balloon. In current bands, this saline solution must be injected into a subcutaneous...

20050288744 - Electromagnetic treatment induction apparatus and method for using same: A lightweight inductive apparatus is integrated into at least one therapeutic device (Step 101). Miniaturized circuitry containing logic for a mathematical model having at least one waveform parameter used to configure at least one waveform to be coupled to a target pathway structure such as molecules, cells, tissues, and organs,...

20050288745 - Method and device for optical ophthalmic therapy: Optical scanning system and method for performing therapy on trabecular meshwork of a patient's eye, including a light source for producing alignment and therapeutic light, a scanning device for deflecting the alignment and therapeutic light to produce an alignment therapeutic patterns of the alignment and therapeutic light, and an ophthalmic...

20050288746 - Device for treating infants with light: A device for providing light, preferably UV light to infants and/or children. The device comprises a housing, inside the housing are one or more light sources adapted to emit light at a therapeutic wavelength or wavelengths. A series of apertures in the housing are adapted to align a plurality of...

20050288747 - Heat generating element, medical therapeutic instrument implementing the same, and treatment apparatus: A heat generating element of the present invention includes at least a substrate, an insulating film disposed on the substrate, a heat generating portion provided with a thin film resistor disposed on at least a part of the insulating film, and a protective film disposed on the above-described insulating film...

20050288748 - Medical device for treating skin problems: An apparatus and method that is effective for the treatment of skin itch and skin rash is disclosed. The apparatus is contained within a body which can be easily manipulated with one hand, and which is powered by a self-contained battery. Also contained within the body is a heating means,...

20050288749 - Heat wick for skin cooling: Steady-state cooling of the skin is achieved by a support surface without requiring external power or circulation of air. Heat is transferred from via a thermally conductive layer or layers of material(s) that are soft, pliable, and comfortable to sit or lie on. The layer is connected to conductive materials...

20050288750 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288751 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288752 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288753 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288754 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288755 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288756 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288757 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050288760 - Corpus callosum neuromodulation assembly: Neuromodulation assemblies with lead bodies having curvatures that mimic the curvatures of the splenium, trunk, genu, or rostrum of the corpus callosum. Methods of stimulating the corpus callosum and methods of securing an electrical lead in the brain are also provided....

20050288759 - Method and apparatus for implanting an electrical stimulation lead using a flexible introducer: In one embodiment, an introducer is provided for implanting a paddle style electrical stimulation lead to enable electrical stimulation of nerve tissue. The introducer includes an outer sheath and an inner penetrator. The outer sheath may accommodate insertion of the paddle style electrical stimulation lead and may be inserted into...

20050288758 - Methods and apparatuses for implanting and removing an electrical stimulation lead: In one embodiment, a lead introducer kit for preparing to implant an electrical stimulation lead for electrical stimulation of nerve tissue is provided. The lead introducer kit includes a needle, a guide wire, a lead blank having a similar shape and size as an electrical stimulation, and an introducer. The...

20050288761 - Multipolar medical electrical lead: A pacing lead includes a first pacing cathode coupled to a first conductor, a second pacing cathode coupled to a second conductor, and a flexible anode coupled to a third conductor. The flexible anode has a length less than approximately 10 millimeters and is spaced apart from and proximal to...

20050283194 - Medical device with low emi leakage: A medical device is configured to attenuate emission of electromagnetic radiation and comprises a housing, a circuit assembly mounted in the housing, and a panel coupled to the housing and to the circuit assembly. The panel comprises a first conductive region on an interior surface of the panel that is...

20050283195 - Methods and apparatuses for localizing myocardial infarction during catheterization: A catheter with a tissue property sensor provides for localization of myocardial infarction (MI) by utilizing one or more differences between properties of infarcted myocardial tissue and properties of normal myocardial tissue. The tissue property sensor is to be placed on endocardial wall or epicardial wall during catheterization to sense...

20050283196 - Method and system for characterizing supraventricular rhythm during cardiac pacing: A method and system for generating a characterization of one beat of a patient's supraventricular rhythm (SVR) involves performing such characterization while the heart is being paced. During SVR characterization, various pacing parameters are modified and the patient's supraventricular rhythm is characterized while the pacing parameters are modified. The SVR...

20050283197 - Systems and methods for hypotension: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods that detect hypotension based on a measurement of thoracic impedance. It also provides an alert, a logging, or a therapy to treat the hypotension. Examples of anti-hypotension therapies include, among other things, pacing therapy, neural stimulation therapy, drug infusion therapy, or...

20050283198 - Conditional requirements for remote medical device programming: A remote programming method is provided for safe and secure programming of a medical device at a remote location. A centralized programming instrument for use by a clinician or third party is provided with a network communication connection with a remote external medical device, such as a home programmer or...

20050283199 - Method and apparatus for ion source positioning and adjustment: The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for ion source positioning and adjustment. According to one embodiment, the invention relates to an apparatus for ion source positioning and adjustment. The apparatus comprises a bottom plate, a middle plate and a top plate, wherein the top plate is coupled...

20050283200 - Methods of treating medical conditions by neuromodulation of the cerebellar pathways: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of target sites of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, learning disorders associated with hemispheric...

20050283201 - Methods of treating neurological conditions by neuromodulation of interhemispheric fibers: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of a target site of interhemispheric fibers. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infection disease, degenerative disorder, autoimmune disorders,...

20050283205 - Apparatus, method, and medium controlling electrical stimulation and/or health training/monitoring: An apparatus, method, and medium for generating electrical stimulation, including an electromyogram detector detecting an electromyographic signal of a body, a fatigue index calculator calculating a fatigue index indicating a degree of muscle fatigue by converting the electromyographic signal detected by the electromyogram detector during a predetermined time unit into...

20050283204 - Automated adaptive muscle stimulation method and apparatus: An automated adaptive muscle stimulation system and method are disclosed. The stimulation system includes at least one electrode assembly adapted to deliver a muscle stimulation signal to the tissue of a user, a sensor system adapted to detect a muscle response, and an electrical stimulation device operably coupled to the...

20050283202 - Neuromodulation system: An electrical stimulation system comprises an implant adapted for insertion into a body in contact with target tissue, the implant including a transdermal receiver and an external driver including a source of stimulation current and a transdermal transmitter transmitted the stimulation current to the transdermal receiver. A method of electrically...

20050283206 - Skin electrodes with design thereon: Method of performing an orthopedic procedure using an orthopedic device and an electrode comprising a body portion having a first surface and indicia located on a side opposing the first surface. The method includes arranging the first surface of the electrode on a patient's skin during an orthopedic procedure so...

20050283203 - Transcutaneous implant: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for a neural access device that includes an implant which transcutaneously exits the skin of a patient and provides transport of signals between a sensor implanted in a patient and an external device. The transcutaneous implant has integrated features to provide reduced risk of...

20050283207 - Low power signal transmission: A low-power implant system. The system includes an implant for implantation into a person, such as a cochlear implant or a middle ear implant. The implant is capable of communicating with a device via transmission of ultra wideband pulses. The device may be adapted to be worn external to the...

20050283208 - Dynamic telemetry encoding for an implantable medical device: A telemetry system provides a selectable encoding protocol, including, for example, a plurality of redundancy levels, where the encoding protocol is selected based on a measure of transmission efficiency. For example, later messages are transmitted using an increased redundancy if a prior message exhibits a low signal to noise ratio....

20050283209 - On-demand retransmission of data with an implantable medical device: This document discloses, among other things, a telemetry system for requesting and receiving redundant data. A synchronization frame transmitted by an external device includes an echo code. The implantable device responds to the synchronization frame by sending real time data and echo data selected as a function of the echo...

20050283210 - System and method of managing medical device historical data: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide management of historical information associated with a medical device, such as an implantable neurostimulation pulse generator, drug pump, cardiac device, hearing enhancement device, or vision enhancement device. Such management of historical information includes storage of historical information within an associated medical device. Historical...

20050283211 - Photomodulation methods and devices for regulating cell proliferation and gene expression: Human and mammalian skin undergoes a variety of changes associated with chronological aging. Various environmental factors, disease states and genetic disorders may accelerate both the appearance of aging skin and also the structural and functional changes associated with aging skin. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is one of the classic...

20050283212 - Compress with cooling effect in sterile pack: The invention relates to a compress with a cooling effect, based on particles (6) of a polymer that has a high water absorption capacity, which comes enclosed with a reserve of water to activate it in an item (2) which comprises, inside a watertight outer sachet (3), on the one...

20050283213 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050283214 - Medical device with an electrically conductive anti-antenna member: A lead includes a conductor having a distal end and a proximal end and a resonant circuit connected to the conductor. The resonant circuit has a resonance frequency approximately equal to an excitation signal's frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner or a resonance frequency not tuned to an excitation...

20050283215 - Electrode needle: The electrode needle according to the invention has a shaft 4 and at least one active electrode 7 and is distinguished in that the shaft 4 includes a nuclear magnetic resonance-active marker element 15 spatially associated with the active electrode 7. The nuclear magnetic resonance-active marker element can contain ferromagnetic...

20050283216 - Apparatus and method for displacing tissue obstructions: A catheter for displacing tissue obstructions having first and second conduits extending therethrough. Preferably, the catheter has a distensible balloon positioned at its distal end in fluid communication with the first conduit, and a fluid delivery port also located at its distal end for discharging fluid from the second lumen....

20050283217 - Electrical connector to terminate, insulate and environmentally isolate a temporary cardiac pacing wire: A connector device, for a temporary cardiac pacing wire, includes a conductive adaptor and a cover section which completely electrically insulates the adaptor and environmentally isolates it. The conductive adaptor comprises a contact receiving end having an aperture therein and a plug portion for plugging into a suitable medical instrument....

20050283218 - Implantable chamber for biological induction or enhancement of muscle contraction: A percutaneously implantable chamber for the treatment of a cardiac condition is disclosed herein, the chamber capable of delivery and maintenance of viable cells comprising a pacemaker gene or other genes intended to impart a specific function via a host cell. An artificial sinoatrial node and artificial atrial ventricular node...

20050283219 - Packaging for medical pads and electrodes: Disposable biomedical pads include a conductive outer layer with an adhesive conductive protected layer on a major portion of the outer layer, with a double-sided release layer over the protected layer. Two pads are folded against each other, with the edges sealed to protect the gel layer from the environment....

20050277988 - Energizer for vascular guidewire: An energizer for use with a guidewire, such as a vascular guidewire, in one embodiment engages a proximal end of the guidewire and applies energy to be transmitted to a distal portion of the guidewire. A jack or other receptacle accommodates, in a releasably secured fashion, a proximal portion of...

20050277989 - Layered deposition braze material: The invention is a component and method of bonding a ceramic part to a metal part by heating a component assembly comprised of the metal part, the ceramic part, and a thin compact interlayer material placed between the two parts and heated at a temperature that is greater than the...

20050277990 - Current waveforms for anti-tachycardia pacing for a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: A power supply for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for subcutaneous positioning between the third rib and the twelfth rib and using a lead system that does not directly contact a patient's heart or reside in the intrathoracic blood vessels and for providing anti-tachycardia pacing energy to the heart, comprising a capacitor...

20050277991 - Assessing medical electrode condition: The invention presents an apparatus and techniques for determining whether a medical electrode, such as a defibrillation electrode coupled to an automated external defibrillator, is in a condition for replacement. The determination can be made as a function of one or more data. In one exemplary embodiment, the determination is...

20050277992 - Collecting and analyzing sensed information as a trend of heart failure progression or regression: An exemplary method includes selecting a cross-correlation frequency having an associated cross-correlation period, detecting and binning a heart rate in a heart rate bin, detecting and binning an activity state in an activity state bin, repeating the detecting and binning a heart rate and the detecting and binning an activity...

20050277993 - System and method for managing detrimental cardiac remodeling: A system and method for managing and inhibiting cardiac remodeling in MI patients. Bi-ventricular stimulation is constantly provided with and without sensing to encourage normal pumping of the heart on a consistent basis. Pulses are administered using an anodal pulse followed by a cathodal pulse to stimulate cardiac muscle contraction....

20050277994 - Apparatus and method for estimating battery condition in implantable cardiac devices: An apparatus and method for determining the condition of a battery in an implantable cardiac rhythm management device is described. A battery's status is determined from a record of the device's operational history. The operational history may include the total number of events or event durations recorded during a specified...

20050277995 - Deep brain stimulation of the zona incerta: That deep brain stimulation can be used in the treatment of movement disorders and for identifying an area of the brain to be targeted by DBS in the treatment of movement disorders....

20050277996 - Method of reducing pressure in a nucleus pulposus: A method for reducing intervertebral pressure is provided. The method includes providing an electrode and a generator. The electrode includes a proximal end and a distal end. The generator is operatively connected to the proximal end of the electrode and is configured to supply radiofrequency current thereto. The method also...

20050277999 - Implantable pulse generator for providing functional and/or therapeutic stimulation of muscles and /or nerves and/or central nervous system tissue: Improved assemblies, systems, and methods provide an implantable pulse generator for prosthetic or therapeutic stimulation of muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination. The implantable pulse generator is sized and configured to be implanted subcutaneous a tissue region. The implantable pulse generator includes an electrically conductive case...

20050278000 - Implantable pulse generator for providing functional and/or therapeutic stimulation of muscles and/or nerves and/or central nervous system tissue: Improved assemblies, systems, and methods provide an implantable pulse generator for prosthetic or therapeutic stimulation of muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination. The implantable pulse generator is sized and configured to be implanted subcutaneously in a tissue region. The implantable pulse generator includes an electrically conductive...

20050278001 - Interferential and neuromuscular electrical stimulation system and apparatus: A multi-mode electrical therapeutic stimulation system. The system includes circuitry for providing interferential stimulation, muscle stimulation, and pulsed DC stimulation with an automatic switchover of electrode configurations between types of interferential and muscle stimulation without the need to manually alter the positioning of the stimulation electrodes. In one embodiment, the...

20050277997 - Muscle training apparatus and control method therefor: The muscle training apparatus includes: conductors to be mounted on a body of a user; an operation section for receiving an instruction from the user; a memory section for storing a current-and-frequency-correlation data which indicates a relationship between a magnitude of an electrical stimulation signal and a supply frequency of...

20050277998 - System and method for nerve stimulation: A system and method for stimulating a nerve, wherein the system includes a first waveform generator adapted to generate a first waveform having a frequency capable of stimulating a predetermined nerve of the mammal, a second waveform generator adapted to generate a carrier waveform having a frequency capable of passing...

20050278002 - Adaptive control of optical pulses for laser medicine: Tissue is treated by irradiating it with a sequence of optical pulses that are directed in sequence to various sites on the tissue. During the irradiation sequence, one or more tissue properties are measured at a site(s) that has already been irradiated. These measurements are used to adjust the parameters...

20050278003 - Electroluminescent light therapy devices: Wearable devices including a hat or cap, eyeglasses, an eye mask, or a face mask deliver light from light-emitting diodes or deliver electroluminescent light from a light source including an electroluminescent wire or flat panel powered by an inverter connected to the hat or cap, the eyeglasses, the eye mask,...

20050278004 - Laser system for vision correction: A laser system for treating an eye having a cornea, the laser system including a laser beam source capable of generating a laser beam, an eye position detector which includes at least a corneal tracker, the corneal tracker being responsive to movement of an anterior portion of the cornea, the...

20050278006 - Solar energy stored papers and their clinical applications: The invention refers to a method of treating medical conditions through the application of solar energy stored papers during sunrise or sunset comprising the steps of storing solar energy from a sunrise or sunset into a storage media and applying said storage media to an affected area of a patient...

20050278005 - Triggering plate of a chemical heating pack: A triggering plate of a chemical thermos bag has at least a groove with a slit, having two opposite tip parts hiding each other and the tip parts being different in thickness....

20050278007 - Determining connections of multiple energy sources and energy delivery devices: A method and system are disclosed for the mapping of energy delivery devices to energy sources. Energy capable of affecting a measurable property of the system is delivered through the energy delivery devices from the energy sources. A change in a property when the energy is delivered is measured using...

20050278008 - Thermal applicator device and method: A thermal applicator device for applying cold or heat to a selected region of a user's body, particularly the head or face region, has at least two packs, each pack having a central pocket containing a thermal medium for heating or cooling purposes, and a peripheral rim. The peripheral rim...

20050278009 - Electrode for electrostimulators: An electrode (1;31;51) for electrostimulators comprising an insulating housing (2;32;52) in which are located a first conductor element (3;33;53) projecting from the insulating housing (2;32;52); a second conductor element (4;34;54) also projecting from the insulating housing (3;32;52) and electrical conductor means (5;44) appropriate to connect the conductor elements (3, 4;...

20050273141 - Video processing methods for improving visual acuity and/or perceived resolution: A method and apparatus for improving visual acuity when providing a visual image from a “high” resolution input device to a “low” resolution output device. The described invention is of particular use when the output device is an array of electrodes as part of a retinal prosthesis used to restore...

20050273142 - Treatment of vitiligo: Disclosed herein is a novel method of treating vitiligo by using an excimer laser that emits light in the UVB range. The invention includes a method of incrementally increasing exposure of affected vitiligo areas with UVB laser light from an excimer laser to restore pigmentation to skin areas afflicted with...

20050273143 - Systems and methods for combined rf-induced hyperthermia and radioimmunotherapy: A combined radiotherapy and hyperthermia therapy is provided, including inducing hyperthermia in at least a portion of a target area—e.g., a tumor or a portion of a tumor or targeted cancerous cells—is provided. Biomolecules labeled with at least one radionuclide suitable for radiotherapy are provided and introduced into a patient;...

20050273144 - Method and device for reducing secondary brain injury: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for reducing secondary brain injury. The apparatus includes a brain-cooling probe and a control console. The brain-cooling probe cools the brain to prevent secondary injury by cooling the cerebrospinal fluid within one or more brain ventricles. The brain-cooling probe withdraws a small amount of...

20050273145 - Multi-lumen heat transfer catheters: Heat transfer catheter apparatus and methods of making and using same are disclosed wherein fluid connection means is provided between the distal portions of two adjacent, thin-walled, high strength fluid lumens to define a closed loop fluid circulation system capable of controlled delivery of thermal energy to or withdrawal of...

20050273146 - Liquid perfluoropolymers and medical applications incorporating same: Liquid curable perfluoropolyether (PFPE) materials are provided for use as coatings, sealants, flexible fillers, and structural parts for a wide variety of medical applications, particularly where silicone has been utilized conventionally. The PFPE material is oxygen permeable and bacterial impermeable and may contain one or more pharmacological agents elutably trapped...

20050267535 - Apparatus and method for interfering with pathological cells survival processes: A method and an apparatus for interfering with pathological cells survival processes, i.e. inducing directly or indirectly apoptosis, on living pathological cells, by using magnetic fields without adversely affecting normal cells. Static (S) and extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields are used having low intensity comprised between 1 and 100...

20050267536 - Automated pediatric defibrillator: A device for assisting a rescuer in delivering therapy to an adult or pediatric patient, the device including a user interface comprising a display and/or audio speakers, the user interface being configured to deliver prompts to a rescuer to assist the rescuer in delivering therapy to a patient; a processor...

20050267537 - subcutaneous cardiac stimulator device having an anteriorly positioned electrode: A subcutaneous cardiac device includes a subcutaneous electrode and a housing coupled to the subcutaneous electrode by a lead with a lead wire. The subcutaneous electrode is adapted to be implanted in a frontal region of the patient so as to overlap a portion of the patient's heart....

20050267538 - Mode switching algorithm for av block: An apparatus and method is presented for treating patients with sinus node dysfunction who have apparently normal intrinsic AV conduction and thus do not require ventricular pacing unless there is an unexpected AV conduction failure. In one embodiment, a cardiac device with dual-chamber pacing capability is programmed to operate in...

20050267539 - System and method for ventricular pacing with av interval modulation: A pacing protocol is provided that reduces or minimizes ventricular pacing in favor of intrinsic conduction. When operating in a mode that provides ventricular pacing, a series of conduction checks are performed to determine if intrinsic conduction has returned. These conduction checks occur according to a predetermined pattern that generally...

20050267540 - Selective chamber atp pacing: A method and system for delivering anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) is disclosed. By comparing the time intervals between senses from both ventricles, the origin of a ventricular tachyarrhythmia may be mapped to one or the other of the ventricles. The arrhythmic ventricle may then be paced with either single-ventricle or biventricular...

20050267541 - Chronotropic status monitor for implantable cardiac device: An implantable cardiac device with an exertion level sensor is programmed to determine a heart rate appropriate for a given measured exertion level in accordance with a physiological model and/or previously collected physiologic data. The device then compares the model's heart rate with a measured intrinsic heart rate. Based upon...

20050267542 - Techniques for applying, configuring, and coordinating nerve fiber stimulation: Apparatus is provided including an implantable sensor, adapted to sense an electrical parameter of a heart of a subject, and a first control unit, adapted to apply pulses to the heart responsively to the sensed parameter, the pulses selected from the list consisting of: pacing pulses and anti-arrhythmic energy. The...

20050267543 - Antimicrobial protection for implantable medical device: An anti-infective covering for an implantable medical device is described. The covering may be a polymeric boot that comprises an anti-infective agent in an amount effective to prevent an infection when implanted in a pocket of a patient. The boot is configured to snuggly engage at least a portion of...

20050267544 - Low frequency stimulator provided in a mobile terminal and method for controlling the same: Disclosed is a low frequency stimulator provided in a mobile terminal, which comprises a high-voltage pulse generator for adjusting a voltage of the mobile terminal to a level suitable for low frequency stimulation; an output controller for outputting a voltage output from the high-voltage pulse generator in a unipolar or...

20050267546 - Low power loss current digital-to-analog converter used in an implantable pulse generator: In one embodiment, the present invention provides an implantable stimulation device that includes output current sources and/or sinks configured to provide an output current for a load (i.e., tissue). The output path of the output current source or sink comprises a transistor which operates in a linear mode instead of...

20050267547 - Microstimulator treatment for sleep apnea or snoring: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for treating snoring by implanting a stimulating electrode into a patient. The electrode is placed in stimulating contact with an airway passage-controlling muscle of the patient. The electrode is energized to contract the muscle and alter the airway passage....

20050267545 - Nerve stimulator and method: This invention presents a device, and the method it implements, which is an improvement in the design of nerve stimulators. Like conventional stimulators, it uses a percutaneous, insulated needle for the performance of therapeutic interventions targeting nerves. The improvement comprises offering an option for either constant current or constant voltage,...

20050267548 - Device for enhancing cell metabolism: The cell enhancing device for an electrical pulse cosmetic meter, wherein the composite pulse generating device comprising an electrical pulse generating device, generating an electrical pulse sequence of a predetermined electrical pulse amplitude, wherein a frequency of said electrical pulse sequence is adjustable, a waveform adjuster, converting said electrical pulse...

20050267549 - Hybrid cochlear/vestibular implant: A system for treating patients affected both by hearing loss and by balance disorders related to vestibular hypofunction and/or malfunction, which includes sensors of sound and head movement, processing circuitry, a power source, and an implantable electrical stimulator capable of stimulating areas of the cochlea and areas of the vestibular...

20050267550 - System and method for medical communication device and communication protocol for same: A medical communication device and communication protocols. The medical device may include communication circuitry and a plurality of antennas connected to the communication circuitry. The plurality of antennas may be disposed in the medical device such that the medical device communicates in a plurality of directions. The medical device may...

20050267551 - Device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues: The device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues includes a UV light source, a halogen light source and a viewing mechanism all connected to a trifurcation joint by fiber optic cables. All three fiber optics cables are bundled together and exit the trifurcation joint and form a flexible shaft...

20050267552 - Electrosurgical device: An electrosurgical device having improved placement accuracy is provided. The electrosurgical device comprises an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therethrough, a conductive tip at the distal end for delivery of energy to the tissue, an electrical connector at or near the proximal end...

20050267553 - System and method for controlling electrical stimulation and radiofrequency output for use in an electrosurgical procedure: A system (20) for performing an electrosurgical procedure includes a first electrode (22) for contacting a target nerve tissue area of a patient to deliver electrical energy to the target nerve tissue area. The system (20) is characterized by a multi-function hand controller (30) in communication with a control unit...

20050267555 - Engagement tool for implantable medical devices: Systems for adjusting a position of an implanted medical device within a patient include an engagement tool configured to couple to the implanted medical device. The engagement tool adjusts the position of the medical device when coupled to the implanted medical device. Methods of adjusting a position of an implanted...

20050267554 - Medical electrical lead implant tool: A medical electrical lead implant tool includes a gripping assembly, terminating a distal end of an elongate shaft, adapted to alternately grasp the lead and release the lead and to rotate the lead, and a user control terminating a proximal end of the shaft. An internal drive cable extends within...

20050267556 - Drug eluting implants to prevent cardiac apoptosis: Implantable devices are configured to be positioned in or near the heart and to carry and deliver an anti-apoptotic drug to a treatment site in or near the heart. The implantable devices include, but are not limited to, leads, stents, heart valves, atrial septal defect devices, cardiac patches and ventricular...

20050267557 - Extendable and retractable lead having a snap-fit terminal connector: A lead having an extendable and retractable fixation mechanism has a rotating terminal pin at the terminal end which rotates the fixation mechanism at the distal end. As the terminal pin is rotated, the fixation mechanism is extended or retracted from the distal end of the lead. A threaded collar...

20050267558 - Cochlear lead: An electrode array design is provided which is intended for deep insertion into a human cochlea. The distal most portion of the lead can be very thin and flexible and have a wider arc than the remainder of the curved electrode array portion of the lead, which has a more...