Method of fixating a heart help device
OwnerPeter Forsellinventor
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Abstract
An implantable heart help method for implantation in a human patient is provided. The device comprising a fixating member adapted to fixate said device to a part of the human body comprising bone. A method of fixating an implantable heart help device in a human patient is provided. The method comprises the steps of: cutting the skin of said human patient, dissecting an area of the body comprising bone, and fixating said implantable heart help device to said part of the body comprising bone.
Claims16
A method of fixating an implantable heart help device in a human patient for improving pump function of the heart of the human patient by applying an external force on a heart muscle, wherein said device comprises at least one heart contacting organ, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing said heart contacting organ onto a first portion of the ventricular area of the heart in a first position,
- placing an operating device in proximity to the heart, adapted to operate said heart contacting organ to
- periodically exert the external force to the heart contacting organ,
- connecting a source of energy for powering said implantable heart help device,
- placing a sensor configured to measure a functional parameter correlated to a transfer of energy for charging the source of energy in proximity to the source of energy, and
- postoperatively and non-invasively calibrating a position of the heart contacting organ by operating an implantable adjustment system, such that the heart contacting organ is moved from the first position to a second position in which the heart contacting organ is placed on a second portion of the ventricular area of the heart, thereby changing the operation of the heart contacting organ from the first position in which the heart contacting organ can periodically exert an external force on the first portion of the ventricular area of the heart to the second position in which the heart contacting organ can periodically exert an external force on the second portion of the ventricular area of the heart, wherein the first portion of the heart and the second portion of the heart are different physical locations on the outside of the heart,
- measuring a functional parameter correlated to the transfer of energy for charging the source of energy using the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.