Implantable pulse generator with automatic jump-start
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorsPeter Jacobson, Alan Ostroff
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Abstract
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an implantable pulse generator device having one or more electrodes, and circuitry that includes one or more processors and memory, the memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including driving the one or more electrodes to deliver a first set of stimulation sessions having a first duty cycle, and subsequently driving the one or more electrodes to deliver a second set of stimulation sessions having a second duty cycle that is less frequent than the first duty cycle.
Claims15
A method of operating a medical device to treat urinary incontinence, the method comprising:
- jump-starting a therapy, after the medical device is implanted proximate a medial malleolus, by following instructions stored in a memory of the medical device initiating one or more electrodes to deliver a first set of stimulation sessions for a first period of time at a first treatment frequency;
- driving, by circuitry enclosed within the medical device previously implanted in a patient, the one or more electrodes to deliver the first set of stimulation sessions having the first treatment frequency;
- electrically stimulating, by the first set of stimulation sessions, a tibial nerve proximal the medial malleolus in treating an overactive bladder condition;
- determining, by the medical device, that the first period of time has elapsed;
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- automatically switching, based on the instructions stored in the memory of the medical device, from the first treatment frequency delivered by the one or more electrodes to a second set of stimulation sessions having a second treatment frequency less frequent ha the first treatment frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.