Cardioverters for elminating atrial fibrillation
OwnerPeter Osypkainventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to two independently operating electrical cardioverters, each having an integrated stimulator for heart therapy. The cardioverters and stimulators have two separate final stages, which can deliver shock pulses or stimulation pulses at a time offset from each other, but can also be controlled by the ventricular ECG and synchronized accordingly.
Claims15
Two independently operating electrical systems for therapy of the heart, including a cardioverter and an integrated stimulator, characterized in that cardioverter and the stimulator each have two separate final stages, which emit an energy pulse in a respectively independently adjustable fashion at a time offset from one another, or which can synchronously be synchronized accordingly by a ventricle EKG.
A cardioverter with an integrated stimulator for therapy of the heart, characterized in that the cardioverter with the stimulator is subdivided into two parts (1, 2), in that the two parts, respectively separately, have electrodes (11 and 12) which can be attached to two atria of the heart and in that, in a usage position, the cardioversion can be performed simultaneously at the two atria in an intracardial and local fashion, but with separate energy pulses.
The cardioverter as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the two epicardial electrodes (11 and 12) at the atria and the outputs of the cardioverters are or can be connected in such a way that the energy pulses for the cardioversion are effective, with appropriate polarity, between the two atria of the heart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.