Implantable electrical nerve stimulator pacemaker with ischemia detector for decreasing cardiac workload
CA 2076384 C · Owner: Obel, Israel Woolf Promund · Inventors: Bourgeois, Ivan; Obel, Israel Woolf Promund
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A method and apparatus for stimulating the right and/or left carotid sinus nerves or the right stellate ganglion or the epidural space at about T2 with continuous and/or phasic electrical pulses in response to detected myocardial ischemia to decrease cardiac workload as a method to protect the myocardium. The automatic detection of the need for such stimulation is responsive to a change in ST segment variation different from a predetermined or programmed threshold suggesting acute myocardial ischemia and/or other criteria or indicators of myocardial ischemia including changes if pH and/or oxygen saturation (SO2) detected from a sensor located in the heart, preferably the coronary sinus. The …
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- Filed March 18, 1992 and granted May 26, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 18, 2012.
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