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20090076570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEMPORARY PROGRAMMING FOR IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES - A system and method for temporary programming of an implantable medical device. The system and method include a repeater uploading temporary programming and instructions to a temporary memory of the device and then instructing the device to operate according to the temporary instructions. If during a first time period, the device is not in continuous periodic communication with the repeater, the device automatically reverts to operation under the normal operating instructions. At the end of the first time period, the caregiver or the patient may decide to revert to the normal programming. During a second time period, the device operates according to the temporary programming unless the caregiver or the patient instructs the device to revert to the normal programming, or the device fails to receive a periodic continuation signal from the repeater. Adverse health affects to the patient may also trigger the device to revert to the normal programming during either the first or second time period. | 03-19-2009 |
20130245710 | INTEGRAL STIMULATION LEAD - An apparatus, such as included as a portion of cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system, can include a subcutaneously-implantable medical device. The subcutaneously-implantable medical device can include a header assembly including a stylet access port, and the apparatus can include an intravascularly-deliverable lead assembly permanently attached to the header assembly and including a lumen to receive a stylet via the stylet access port included in the header assembly. | 09-19-2013 |
20140276929 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES WITH SEPARATE FIXATION MECHANISM - Devices or methods such as for stimulating excitable tissue or sensing physiologic response or other signals that can use separate fixation mechanism is described. An implantable apparatus can include a modular electrostimulation electrode assembly that can include a first module and a second module that can be end user-attachable to each other and end user-detached from each other. The first module can include an electrostimulation electrode fixation support member that can be laid flat against or otherwise conform to a surface of a heart, and can define a centrally located open portal such as for permitting electrode access to the surface of the heart. The second module can include an electrostimulation electrode that can be inserted through the portal of the fixation support member such as to contact the surface of the heart such as to deliver chronic electrostimulation to the heart. | 09-18-2014 |
20140330347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - Systems and methods are described for communicating device information and performance information associated with a population of other electrodes to a remote transceiver. The system can include a radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit coupled to an implantable component. The RFID circuit can include a memory circuit configured to store device information associated with at least one implantation-independent attribute of the implantable component. The RFID circuit can communicate the device information and performance parameters associated with the implantable component to at least one programming unit such as a remote transceiver. The programming unit can program the RFID circuit with information associated with the implantable component. | 11-06-2014 |
20150025404 | METHODOLOGY FOR AUTOMATED SIGNAL MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS IN IMPLANTABLE ELECTROTHERAPY AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS - Systems and related methods for analyzing data sensed from a device implanted in a patient, such as a cardiac pacing system. The system detects and evaluates electric signals within the patient that share a common event marker. By using algorithms and graphical presentation of the collected signals having common event markers, deviations in signals over time can be identified and evaluated in consideration of taking further action related to the patient and the implanted device. The system can also be used in conjunction with an advanced patient management system that includes a programmer or repeater capable of gathering information from the implanted device and transmitting the data to a host via a communications network for evaluation at a remote location. | 01-22-2015 |
20150161332 | MULTI-PATIENT DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for displaying patient data is described. Such patient data includes a list of patients with a plurality of clinical variables associated with each patient. The patient data is displayed in a manner that enables a clinical user to quickly and easily identify patients from an entire follow-up cohort based on visual evaluation. | 06-11-2015 |
20150196756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS - Systems and methods for coordinating treatment of abnormal heart activity using multiple implanted devices within a patient. In one example, abnormal heart activity may be sensed by a medical device system. One of the devices of the system may determine to deliver anti-tachycardia pacing therapy to the heart of the patient, and may communicate an instruction to another of the devices of the medical device system to deliver anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) therapy to the heart. The receiving medical device may then deliver ATP therapy to the heart of the patient. | 07-16-2015 |
20150196757 | COMMUNICATION OF THERAPY ACTIVITY OF A FIRST IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE TO ANOTHER IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - Cardiac activity of the heart can be sensed using, for example, one or more leadless cardiac pacemakers (LCPs) that are implanted in a close proximity to the heart. Sensing cardiac activity by the one or more leadless cardiac pacemakers (LCPs) can help the system in determining an occurrence of cardiac arrhythmia. For treatment purposes, electrical stimulation therapy, for example anti-tachyarrhythmia pacing (ATP) therapy, can be delivered by at least one of the devices of the system. Such therapy can help treat the detected cardiac arrhythmia. In some instances, one of the leadless cardiac pacemakers can instruct one or more of the other devices to assist in providing pacing therapy. In some instances, one of the leadless cardiac pacemakers can instruct one or more of the other devices to temporarily stop providing therapy or to simply shut down while another device provides therapy. | 07-16-2015 |
20150196758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS - Systems and methods for coordinating detection and/or treatment of abnormal heart activity using multiple implanted devices within a patient. In one example, cardiac activity may be sensed by two or more medical device, including a leadless cardiac pacemaker. Cardiac activity sensed by one of the implanted devices may be communicated to another one of the implanted devices. Abnormal heart activity may then be determined based on the cardiac activity of both of the medical device. | 07-16-2015 |
20150297902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS - Systems and methods for coordinating treatment of abnormal heart activity using multiple implanted devices. In one example, a method of operating a medical system may comprise determining, by a first one of a plurality of implantable medical devices, a presence of an arrhythmia, wherein the first one of a plurality of implantable medical devices uses a first discrimination method to determine the presence of an arrhythmia, determining, by a second one of the plurality of implantable medical devices, a presence of an arrhythmia, wherein the second one of a plurality of implantable medical devices uses a second discrimination method to determine the presence of an arrhythmia, and communicating, by the first one of the plurality of implantable medical devices to a second one of the plurality of implantable medical devices, a message that is indicative of a detected arrhythmia by the first one of a plurality of implantable medical devices. | 10-22-2015 |
20150360041 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS - Systems and methods for coordinating treatment of abnormal heart activity using multiple implanted devices within a patient. In one example, a leadless cardiac pacemaker (LCP) may receive signals related to one or more physiological conditions of a patient, wherein the LCP may be configured to deliver ATP therapy to a heart. The LCP may also be configured, based at least in part on the received signals, to detect an arrhythmia. In response to detecting an arrhythmia, the LCP may determine whether to deliver ATP therapy to the heart. If the LCP determines to deliver ATP therapy, the LCP may deliver ATP therapy to the heart. | 12-17-2015 |
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