Epileptic seizure prevention or treatment via heart rate clamping
AssigneeFlint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
InventorIvan Osorio
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Abstract
We report a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising: detecting said epileptic seizure, based on body data from said patient; and reducing a flow of blood to a brain of said patient in response to said detected seizure; wherein said reducing is effected by: increasing the parasympathetic input to said patient's heart, such as by electrically stimulating a parasympathetic nervous structure, applying cooling energy to a sympathetic nervous structure, or administering a cholinergic or a sympatho-blocking agent to said patient. We also report a medical device system configured to implement the method. We also report a non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method.
Claims19
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising:
- detecting via one or more processors the epileptic seizure, based on body data from the patient;
- and
- reducing a blood pressure of the patient in response to the detected epileptic seizure;
- and
- stopping or modifying the reduction in blood pressure in response to an unsafe drop in blood pressure.
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising:
- detecting via one or more processors the epileptic seizure, based on body data from the patient;
- and
- decreasing a sympathetic input to a heart of the patient in response to the detected epileptic seizure;
- and
- stopping or modifying the decreased sympathetic input, in response to an unsafe drop in blood pressure.
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