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US 11,766,573 B1Granted
Defibrillator with warning indicators
OwnerJoseph Kjell Gonsalvesinventor
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Abstract
The patent application relates to an improved defibrillator device. The present invention compares the heart rate to a predetermined heart, rate from a medical professional so that it can warn the patient upon detecting early signs of heart failure, upon detecting significant signs of heart failure, and prior to shock administration. Such warnings would prevent unnecessary shocks, and would allow patients to live their lives normally with a defibrillator, confident that they would be warned before receiving a shock.
Claims10
An implantable defibrillator comprising:
- a. at least one component for initiating a shock to a patient;
- b. at least one wire connecting at least one shock component to the patient's heart;
- c. at least one detector for detecting a heart rate of a patient;
- d. at least one processor electrically connected to at least one shocking component and at least one heart rate detector;
- e. at least one non-transient memory electrically connected to said heart rate detector and said processor, said at least one memory stores a first heart rate threshold and a program that when executed, performs the following steps:
- i. determining a heart rate of the patient;
- ii. if said determined heart rate is greater than said first heart rate threshold,
- iii. sending a first warning indication to the patient;
- iv. waiting a predetermined amount of time;
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- v. initiating a shock to the patient;
- vi. if said determined heart rate is not greater than said first heart rate threshold,
- vii determining a rate of change of the heart rate of the patient;
- viii if said determined heart rate change is greater than a first heart rate change threshold, sending a second warning indicator to the patient;
- ix. if said determined heart rate change is greater than a second heart rate change threshold, sending a third warning indicator to the patient.
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