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US 4,541,417 AGranted
Coronary augmenter
OwnerPaul P. Krikorianinventor
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Abstract
A coronary augmenter can affect blood flow in a patient. The augmenter has a timer and a stimulator. The timer can repetitively produce a trigger signal. The stimulator can repetitively apply to the patient a stimulating current sized to involuntary contract and relax at least one muscle of the patient in response to the trigger signal.
Claims12
A coronary blood flow augmenter for affecting blood flow in a patient, comprising:
- timing means for repetitively producing a trigger signal in response to a patient's heart beat;
- and
- stimulating means for repetitively applying to a patient a stimulating current size to involuntarily contract and relax at least one muscle in a patient in response to said trigger signal, and stimulating current being timed by said timing means to produce muscular contraction in a muscle excluding a heat during diastole.
A method of augmenting coronary blood flow in a patient, comprising the following steps:
- monitoring a heart beat of a patient;
- developing a repetitive trigger signal in response to a heart beat of a patient;
- and
- repetitively stimulating, by a stimulating current, at least one muscle in a patient to contract and relax in response to the trigger signal, whereby muscular contraction is produced in at least one muscle, excluding the heart, during diastole.
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