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Means and method for the detection of cardiac events

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-10-25
ANGEL MEDICAL SYST
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[0028] 3. the capability to transmit the cardiac event alarm, recorded electrogram and other data collected by the cardiosaver to a medical practitioner at a remote location.
[0096] Yet another object of the present invention is to have the time period between collections of electrogram data vary, where the time period is lengthened when the electrogram is normal and shortened when the electrogram is abnormal.

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AMI is a common and life-threatening complication of coronary heart disease.
Myocardial ischemia is caused by a temporary imbalance of blood (oxygen) supply and demand in the heart muscle.
However, without knowing the patient's normal ECG pattern detection from standard 12 lead ECG can be unreliable.
In addition, ideal placement of subcutaneous electrodes for detection of ST segment shifts as they would relate to a subcutaneously implanted device has not been explored in the prior art.
Although anti-tachycardia pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs) can detect heart arrhythmias, none are currently designed to detect ischemia and acute myocardial infarction events independently or in conjunction with arrhythmias.
It has no real capability to detect ST segment shift and its high pass filtering would in fact preclude accurate detection of changes in the low frequency aspects of the heart's electrical signal.

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[0114]FIG. 1 illustrates one embodiment of the guardian system 10 consisting of an implanted cardiosaver 5 and external equipment 7. The battery powered cardiosaver 5 contains electronic circuitry that can detect a cardiac event such as an acute myocardial infarction or arrhythmia and warn the patient when the event occurs. The cardiosaver 5 can store the patient's electrogram for later readout and can send wireless signals 53 to and receive wireless signals 54 from the external equipment 7. The functioning of the cardiosaver 5 will be explained in greater detail with the assistance of FIG. 4.

[0115] The cardiosaver 5 has two leads 12 and 15 that have multi-wire electrical conductors with surrounding insulation. The lead 12 is shown with two electrodes 13 and 14. The lead 15 has subcutaneous electrodes 16 and 17. In fact, the cardiosaver 5 could utilize as few as one lead or as many as three and each lead could have as few as one electrode or as many as eight electrodes. Furthermore...

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Abstract

Disclosed is a system for the detection of cardiac events that includes an implanted device called a cardiosaver, a physician's programmer and an external alarm system. The system is designed to provide early detection of cardiac events such as acute myocardial infarction or exercise induced myocardial ischemia caused by an increased heart rate or exertion. The system can also alert the patient with a less urgent alarm if a heart arrhythmia is detected. Using different algorithms, the cardiosaver can detect a change in the patient's electrogram that is indicative of a cardiac event within five minutes after it occurs and then automatically warn the patient that the event is occurring. To provide this warning, the system includes an internal alarm sub-system (internal alarm means) within the cardiosaver and / or an external alarm system (external alarm means) which are activated after the ST segment of the electrogram exceeds a preset threshold.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a Divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 853,058, filed on 26 May 2004.FIELD OF USE [0002] This invention is in the field of systems, including devices implanted within a human patient, for the purpose of automatically detecting the onset of a cardiac event. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. A heart attack (also known as an Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)) typically results from a thrombus that obstructs blood flow in one or more coronary arteries. AMI is a common and life-threatening complication of coronary heart disease. The sooner that perfusion of the myocardium is restored (e.g., with injection of a thrombolytic medication such as tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)), the better the prognosis and survival of the patient from the heart attack. The extent of damage to the myocardium is strongly dependent upon the length of time prior t...

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IPC IPC(8): A61B5/0402A61B5/366A61B5/352A61B5/361A61B5/363
CPCA61B5/0031A61B5/0464A61N1/3702A61N1/37258A61N1/3756A61B5/0006A61B5/686A61B5/0472A61B5/0432A61B5/042A61B5/04012A61B5/02455A61B5/746A61B5/0456A61B5/046A61B5/0452A61B5/7465G16H40/67A61B5/349A61B5/363A61B5/333A61B5/352A61B5/361A61B5/366A61B5/358A61B5/33A61B5/329A61B5/29
Inventor FISCHELL, DAVID R.FISCHELL, TIM A.HARWOOD, JONATHANFISCHELL, ROBERT E.JOHNSON, STEVEN R.
Owner ANGEL MEDICAL SYST
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