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AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsAndrew T. Fried, Jacob P. Komarek, Eric P. Minnerath
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Techniques of the present disclosure relate to emergency therapy off functionality included with implantable medical devices (IMDs) and associated external instruments such as rechargers, communicators, and patient remotes. An external instrument for use with an IMD of the present disclosure can include a housing with an interface element, at least one processor inside the housing, and instructions that, when executed on the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: detect a unique input applied to the interface element, wherein the unique input is associated with activating an emergency therapy off feature to disable therapy for a patient; verify that the external instrument is in at least one predefined operational state before activating the emergency therapy off feature; and instruct the IMD to disable therapy in response to verifying that the external instrument is in the at least one predefined operational state.
An external instrument for use with an implantable medical device (IMD), comprising:
A medical treatment system, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoding instructions operable to cause at least one processor of an external instrument for use with an implantable medical device (IMD) to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.