US 6,327,501 B1Granted

System and method for determining safety alert conditions for implantable medical devices

AssigneePacesetter, Inc.

InventorsPaul A. Levine, Bruce L. Wilkoff, Brian M. Mann, Allan R. Schwartz

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Abstract

A system and method for identifying and displaying safety alert advisories. The system automatically performs a comparison of identification data with a safety alert advisory. The system stores identification data in a plurality of dedicated fields. Each of dedicated fields contains information related to the patient. Upon the telemetric retrieval of the data by an external programmer, the external programmer automatically cross-correlates the data in the dedicated fields with the safety alert advisories. Upon identification of a match between the data and one of the safety alert advisories, the identified safety alert advisory is displayed to a medical practitioner. In addition, the system provides a dedicated memory to store an advisory flag. The advisory flag is marked when the programmer identifies a safety alert condition that is relevant to one of the dedicated fields. When a subsequent external programmer retrieves the data from the dedicated fields, the external programmer can notify the medical practitioner that a safety alert advisory exists even though the safety alert advisory was never directly input into the subsequent external programmer.

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Dependent claims

A system for advising a user of safety alerts corresponding to an implantable medical device system, the system comprising:

an implantable medical device system comprising at least one component, the implantable medical device system including:
a device memory for storing identification information for the at least one component;
and
a communication device for transmitting the identification information;
and
an external programmer for communicating with the implantable medical device system, the external programmer including:
a local memory for storing safety alert information to identify safety alerts for at least one component of the implantable medical device system;
a communication device for receiving the identification information from the implantable medical device system via the communication device of the implantable medical device system;
a processor for comparing the safety alert information stored in the local memory to the identification data received from the implantable medical device system to determine the identity of any components corresponding to the safety alert information;
and
a display for displaying to a user the identity of any components of the implantable medical device system corresponding to the safety alert information which were identified by the processor.

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