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US 2015/0088217 A1Published application
Implantable cardiac stimulation device and method that stabilizes ventricular rate during episodes of atrial fibrillation
AssigneePacesetter, Inc.
InventorsEuljoon Park, You-Ho Kim, Taraneh Ghaffari Farazi
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Abstract
An implantable cardiac stimulation device provides electrical stimulation therapy to stabilize the ventricular rate of a heart during episodes of atrial fibrillation. The stimulation therapy may be a plurality of sub-threshold stimulation pulses delivered to capture AV node vagal innervations following the detection of atrial fibrillation.
Claims6
An implantable cardiac stimulation device comprising:
- an atrial fibrillation detector that detects atrial fibrillation of a heart;
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- a pulse generator that, responsive to the atrial fibrillation detector detecting atrial fibrillation of the heart, delivers a plurality of neural stimulation pulses to near the AV node of the heart to capture vagal innervations to the AV node during a time period having a duration related to a desired ventricular rate of the heart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.