Cardiac stimulating device
AssigneeSt. Jude Medical, Inc.
InventorsCarl Johan Hoijer, Hans Schuller
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AssigneeSt. Jude Medical, Inc.
InventorsCarl Johan Hoijer, Hans Schuller
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The invention concerns an implantable cardiac stimulating device (1). The device (1) comprises a pacing circuit (2) with means (13, 14) adapted to be connected to a first elecrode (23) to stimulate and detect activity in the left ventricle. The control circuit (3) further comprises means (10, 11) and (12) to enable stimulation and activity detection in the right atrium (6) and to enable activity detection in the left atrium (7). At a spaced or sensed event in the right atrium (6) a first AV-delay is started. When the subsequent left atrial depolarization is detected by the detector (12) a new AV interval is started that will provide an optimized left side AV-interval. Either the left ventricle only or both ventricles are paced at the optimized left side AV-interval.
An implantable cardiac stimulating device (1), comprising:
An implantable cardiac stimulating device (1) according to anyone of the preceding claims, characterized in that anyone of electrodes (21), (22), (23) and (24) are bipolar.
An implantable cardiac stimulating device (1) according to anyone of the preceeding claims characterized in that left atrial depolarisations are sensed as FFPW on signals picked up by an electrode (23) located on the left side of the heart.
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