Pacemaker electrode array
AssigneePeter Osypka Stiftung
InventorPeter Osypka
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Abstract
A pacemaker electrode array (1) which includes a pacemaker electrode (5) that acts upon the outside of a heart (2) and that is disposed with one pole (3), in the operational position, in the cardiac tissue and extends to an implanted pacemaker (4). The array includes a puncturing needle (7) and an insertion tube (8) for the puncturing needle to assist in installation. The inner diameter of the tube is sufficiently large enough for the pacemaker electrode (5) to fit into the insertion tube (8) once the puncture needle (7) is withdrawn and to be introducible into the cardiac tissue while inserted in the tube. The introduction tube (8) can be withdrawn in a known manner or can be removed laterally through a lateral opening.
Claims7
Cardiac pacemaker electrode arrangement (1) comprising a cardiac pacemaker electrode (5), which, in an operational position, acts on an outside of a heart (2) or on the heart (2) from an outside thereof and/or which is arranged or which can be fixed with a pole (3) in heart tissue and which extends to an implantable cardiac pacemaker (4) and which has an electrode feed line (6), and with an anchor that can be fixed from the outside of the heart (2) in the operational position, and at least one tool and/or aid used for positioning and/or fixing the anchor, comprising at least one hollow puncture needle (7) and one insertion tube (8) for the hollow puncture needle (7), an inner cross section of the insertion tube (8) is dimensioned large enough that the cardiac pacemaker electrode (5) fits into the tube and can move in the tube with the anchor provided on a distal end of the cardiac pacemaker electrode (5).
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