Apparatus for shockwave treatment
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsWerner Schwarze, Joachim Voss
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Abstract
An apparatus for shockwave treatment of a patient, includes a shockwave generator and a detector of a cardiac signal which corresponds to the cardiac action of the patient. During the shockwave treatment, complications to the patient are prevented by the provision of an analyzer for determining extrasystoles in the cardiac signal, a frequency determining circuit which determines the frequency of occurrence of extrasystoles, and a control device responsive to the frequency determining circuit which controls the shockwave generator in dependence on the frequency of occurrence of extrasystoles.
Claims10
An apparatus for shockwave treatment of a patient, comprising:
- a shockwave generator for generating successive shockwaves in the patient;
- detecting means for detecting a cardiac signal corresponding to cardiac action in the patient;
- an analyzer means, coupled to said detecting means, for detecting occurrences of extrasystoles in the detected cardiac signal;
- frequency determining means fed by said analyzer means for determining a frequency of occurrence of the extrasystoles;
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- control means responsive to said frequency determining means for controlling the shockwave generator in dependence upon the determined frequency of occurrence of the extrasystoles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.