Implantable system for stimulating a human heart or an animal heart

a technology of implantable systems and heart valves, applied in heart stimulators, informatics, therapy, etc., can solve the problems of insufficient therapy effectiveness, difficult to predict which type of treatment is useful, and only moderate success of procedures

Pending Publication Date: 2022-07-07
BIOTRONIK SE & CO KG
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Frequently, it is difficult to predict which type of treatment is useful for adequately and effectively treating arrhythmia, and in particular atrial tachycardia.
However, this procedure yields only moderate success since ultimately this requires a spontaneous change in the condition of the heart or the passing of a sufficiently long period of time.
One problem of the known implementations of the aATP therapy is that the therapy is not sufficiently effective.

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[0236]Referring now to the figures of the drawings in detail and first, particularly to FIG. 1 thereof, there is shown a block diagram of an exemplary embodiment of a cardiac pacemaker 100, which is used as an implantable system for stimulating the human or animal heart. The cardiac pacemaker 100 comprises a power source 110, a first detection unit 120, an atrial stimulation unit 130, a second detection unit 140, and a ventricular stimulation unit 150. The first detection unit 120, the atrial stimulation unit 130, the second detection unit 140 and the ventricular stimulation unit 150 are operatively connected to a control unit 160. A processor 170 and a memory 180 are assigned to the control unit 160. The memory 180 includes program information prompting the processor 170 to carry out certain steps when the program is being executed on the processor 170.

[0237]These steps provide that it is detected by way of the first detection unit 120 whether atrial tachycardia to be treated is pr...

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An implantable system for stimulating a heart contains a processor, a memory, a stimulator, and a first detection unit for detecting a cardiac rhythm disturbance of a cardiac region. The memory includes a computer-readable program, which prompts the processor to carry out the following steps: a) detecting via the first detection unit whether a cardiac rhythm disturbance is present in a cardiac region of a heart of a patient; b) when a cardiac rhythm disturbance is present, selecting a stimulation strategy based on a selection criterion; c) stimulating the cardiac region in which the cardiac rhythm disturbance was detected by way of the stimulator, using the selected stimulation strategy; d) detecting a success and/or an efficiency of the conducted stimulation; e) comparing the success and/or the efficiency to a predefinable success and/or efficiency criterion; and f) if the predefinable success and/or efficiency criterion was not achieved, optimizing the stimulation strategy.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a continuation of patent application Ser. No. 16 / 835,638, filed Mar. 31, 2020; this application also claims the priority, under 35 U.S.C. § 119, of German patent application DE 10 2019 110 284.7, filed Apr. 18, 2019; the prior applications are herewith incorporated by reference in their entirety.FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to an implantable system for stimulating a human heart or an animal heart, to a method for controlling the operation of such a system, and to a computer program product suitable for such control.[0003]Implantable systems for stimulating a human heart or an animal heart, such as cardiac pacemakers, have been known for quite some time. These can carry out a variety of functions. It is known, among other things, to use such cardiac pacemakers for treating atrial arrhythmia. Different stimulation programs may be carried out by a corresponding cardiac pacemaker ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61N1/39A61N1/362A61N1/365
CPCA61N1/39622A61N1/3624G16H50/30A61N1/36564A61N1/36521A61N1/3702A61N1/3706A61N1/395A61N1/368
Inventor DOERR, THOMASERSHOV, SERGEYRADTKE, TORSTENROEMER, MARTINWEISS, INGO
Owner BIOTRONIK SE & CO KG
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