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Surgery: Light, Thermal, And Electrical Application > Light, Thermal, And Electrical Application > Electrical Therapeutic Systems > Heart Rate Regulating (e.g., Pacing) > Testing Or Monitoring Pacer Function Testing Or Monitoring Pacer FunctionTesting Or Monitoring Pacer Function patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/07/06 - 20060276850 - Detector for magnetic hazards to implanted medical device A handheld detector gives a warning when a magnetic field exceeds the safety level for a particular medical implant that is magnetically activated. A front surface of the device corresponds approximately to a surface region of a patient's body in a vicinity of an implanted medical device. The magnetic detection ... 11/09/06 - 20060253163 - System and method for recovering from transient faults in an implantable medical device A system and method is disclosed for system fault recovery by an implantable medical device which employs a global fault response. The system enables the device to consistently recover from transient faults while maintaining a history of the reason for the device fault. Upon detection of a fault, the primary ... 11/02/06 - 20060247706 - Method and apparatus for dynamically monitoring, detecting and diagnosing lead conditions The present invention provides diverse methods and apparatus for in vivo monitoring, detecting and/or predicting potential failure modes or deleterious trends of chronically implanted medical electrical leads prior to actual failure of said leads. Certain embodiments of the invention involve applying a relatively increased data sampling rate at various time ... 11/02/06 - 20060247705 - Atrial capture management in minimal ventricular pacing system and method Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for an implantable medical device comprising means for selecting between an atrial chamber reset (ACR) test and an atrioventricular conduction (AVC) test to provide atrial capture management and means for switching between an atrial-based pacing mode and a dual chamber pacing mode ... 09/28/06 - 20060217775 - Self test system for a medical device A self test system for a medical device the medical device being arranged to send information concerning components of the medical device to an indicator which can show the status of the components when tested, characterised in that the self test system includes one or more self test units which ... 09/21/06 - 20060212083 - Connection verification apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus, system, and method may operate to provide a connection signal using a first contact, measure a waveshape associated with a corresponding connection signal arising from the connection signal at a second contact connected to a first electrode using a lead, and provide a comparison result after determining whether ... 06/22/06 - 20060136002 - Automatic lv / rv capture verification and diagnostics The present invention provides a technique for verifying pacing capture of a ventricular chamber, particularly to ensure desired delivery of a ventricular pacing regime (e.g., cardiac resynchronization therapy or “CRT”). The invention also provides for ventricular capture management by delivering a single ventricular pacing stimulus and checking inter-ventricular conduction during ... 06/08/06 - 20060122652 - Test method and apparatus for verification of medical device functionality This invention relates to methods, apparatuses and systems for testing the functionality of the pumping mechanism of a medical device, e.g., an implantable infusion pump, while the medical device is contained within a shipping package. The test apparatus enables such functional verification, without opening the shipping package, when the medical ... 06/01/06 - 20060116734 - Selective organ cooling apparatus An endovascular heat transfer device which can have a smooth exterior surface, or a surface with ridges and grooves. The device can have a plurality of elongated, articulated segments, with each having such a surface. A flexible joint connects adjacent elongated, articulated segments. The flexible joints can be bellows or ... 06/01/06 - 20060116733 - Method and apparatus for identifying lead-related conditions using prediction and detection criteria A method for delivering therapy in a medical device that includes a two-tiered approach of determining the presence of a lead-related condition, and determining, in response to a lead-related condition being present, the presence of oversensing. Deliver of therapy by the medical device is controlled in response to determining that ... 06/01/06 - 20060116732 - Method and apparatus for determining oversensing in a medical device A method and apparatus for determining oversensing in a medical device that includes sensing cardiac signals and detecting cardiac events via a first electrode configuration, determining the presence of an episode event in response to the detected cardiac events, and sensing the cardiac signals via a second electrode configuration. Amplitudes ... 03/23/06 - 20060064136 - Method and apparatus for facilitating patient alert in implantable medical devices An implantable medical device system capable of generating a patient alert message for display on an external patient communicator is provided. The patient alert message notifies the patient that a patient alert condition has been detected; indicates what type of alert condition was detected, and instructs the patient regarding what ... 03/09/06 - 20060052833 - Implantable cardiac pacemaker with automatic control of the connection of a probe and the implantation of the case An implantable cardiac pacemaker with automatic control of the connection of a probe and the implantation of the case. The device includes a generator and its energy source. The generator includes: circuits for scanning battery consumption, able to measure current output by the battery and to deliver a measured value ... 01/12/06 - 20060009812 - Maximum pacing rate limiter implemented using the evoked response - t-wave interval A maximum pacing rate limiter for use in adaptive rate pacing in conjunction with a cardiac rhythm management system for a heart. The maximum pacing rate limiter may function to measure an interval, termed the ERT interval, between a paced ventricular evoked response and a T-wave. The maximum pacing rate ... 11/17/05 - 20050256547 - Site reversion in cardiac rhythm management Methods for failure recovery in a cardiac rhythm management system and apparatus capable of carrying out the methods. The methods include applying a first pacing therapy using one or more leads. The methods further include detecting a failure condition on one or more of the leads, wherein the failure condition ... 11/17/05 - 20050256546 - Medical device battery pack with active status indication A system and method provides a status indicator to a battery pack of a medical device. The battery pack includes a power supply capable of being connected to the medical device. The battery pack also includes an indicator to automatically indicate a status of at least a portion of at ... 10/27/05 - 20050240236 - Implantable medical device with voice responding and recording capacity An implantable medical device such as a cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with the capability of receiving communications in the form of speech spoken by the patient. An acoustic transducer is incorporated within the device which along with associated filtering circuitry enables the voice communication to be used to affect ... 10/20/05 - 20050234519 - Cardiac stimulation device and method for automatic lower pacing rate optimization A method and device for determining an optimal lower rate and adjusting the programmed lower pacing rate to the optimal rate that includes monitoring a parameter in response to therapy delivered at a first rate during a first time period to generate first parameter data, and determining whether the therapy ... 10/06/05 - 20050222631 - Hierarchical data storage and analysis system for implantable medical devices A hierarchical data storage and analysis system for implantable medical devices is described. In an implementation, a method includes analyzing data collected by an implantable medical device (IMD) by utilizing a set of analytical capabilities. A determination is made, from the analyzing, whether to communicate the data to a computing ... 08/25/05 - 20050187588 - System and method for displaying cardiac events Systems, devices and methods are provided for displaying statistical distributions of cardiac events. A device embodiment comprises circuitry adapted to communicate with a medical device that is adapted to acquire data regarding cardiac events occurring at two or more cardiac sites, and display means for displaying a histogram of the ... 08/25/05 - 20050187587 - Method, apparatus and product for acquiring cardiac images A method for acquiring cardiac information from a patient having a pacer for pacing a heart rhythm, an abnormal EKG, or an abnormal heartbeat is disclosed. The method includes: placing a signal injection device proximate the pacer of the patient and injecting a signal across a skin barrier of the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177197 - System and method for ventricular pacing with progressive conduction check interval 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 general ... 07/28/05 - 20050165455 - Method and apparatus for deducing far-field interchamber interference in an implanted medical device An implantable medical device comprises at least two sensing channels for receiving sensed first and second location electrical signals originating from two different locations of a heart. A control unit is connected to the sensing channels and is adapted to process sensed electrical signals originating from first and second locations ... 07/07/05 - 20050149138 - System and method for determining optimal pacing sites based on myocardial activation times The optimal location for delivering pacing pulses to a given cardiac chamber (such as the left ventricle) is determined by identifying the last electrically or mechanically activated site within the chamber. For example, the last site within the left ventricular myocardium to depolarize during an intrinsic ventricular contraction triggered by ... 06/23/05 - 20050137637 - Biphasic waveform for anti-tachycardia pacing for a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator Methods and devices for cutaneous testing of a patient for the purpose of implanting and/or placing electrodes for electrical cardiac stimulation. In an example, a cutaneous electrode system is placed and used to observe cardiac signal sensing and/or simulate cardiac stimulation. The method may include identifying locations for improved sensing ... 06/23/05 - 20050137636 - Method and apparatus for identifying lead-related conditions using impedance trends and oversensing criteria A method and apparatus for detecting a lead-related condition that includes determining whether a first oversensing criteria is satisfied, determining whether a second oversensing criteria is satisfied, determining whether an impedance criteria has been satisfied, and generating an alert in response to more than one of the first oversensing criteria, ... 06/16/05 - 20050131479 - Method of patient initiated electro-cardiogram storage, status query and therapy activation 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 ... 06/16/05 - 20050131478 - Cardiac response classification using multisite sensing and pacing Methods and devices for classifying a cardiac pacing response involve using a first electrode combination for pacing and a second electrode combination for sensing a cardiac signal following pacing. The cardiac response to pacing may be classified using the sensed cardiac signal. One process involves using the sensed cardiac signal ... 06/16/05 - 20050131477 - Cardiac response classification using retriggerable classification windows Methods and devices for classifying a cardiac response to pacing involve establishing a retriggerable cardiac response classification window. A first cardiac response classification window is established subsequent to delivery of a pacing pulse. A cardiac signal following the pacing stimulation is sensed in the first classification window. A second cardiac ... 06/16/05 - 20050131476 - Cardiac response classification using multiple classification windows Methods and devices for classifying a cardiac response to pacing involve establishing a plurality of classification windows relative to and following a pacing pulse. One or more characteristics of a cardiac signal sensed following the pacing pulse are detected within one or more particular classification windows. The characteristics may be ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |