Cardiac rhythm management system with user interface for threshold test

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including:
• a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
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• a printer adapted to provide a printout including an electrogram, markers of paced and sensed events, and a separate alphanumeric indicator of energy associated with each of the paced markers, wherein the indicator of pacing energy provides information about at least one of a voltage, a current, a pulsewidth, and an energy.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including:
• a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
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• a user interface screen adapted to display the markers of paced and sensed events and a separate alphanumeric indicator of pacing-level energy associated with each of the paced markers, wherein the indicator of pacing-level energy provides information about at least one of a voltage, a current, a pulsewidth, and an energy.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including:
• a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• and
• a storage medium adapted to store markers of paced and sensed events and a separate alphanumeric indicator of pacing-level energy associated with each of the paced markers, wherein the indicator of pacing-level energy provides information about at least one of a voltage, a current, a pulsewidth, and an energy.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an implantable cardiac rhythm management device;
• at least one leadwire, coupling the implantable cardiac rhythm management device to a patient;
• and
• an external user interface, adapted for communicative coupling to the cardiac rhythm management device, the user interface including:
• a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• an output indicator of energy associated with an instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
• a therapy marker associated with the same instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
• a representation of a cardiac signal acquired by the implantable device;
• wherein the output indicator of energy and the therapy marker are associated with the same instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
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• at least one of a printer and a display, the at least one of the printer and the display adapted to provide the output indicator of energy in association with the representation of the cardiac signal in visual correspondence with a time of the same instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including:
• a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• an alphanumeric output indicator of energy associated with an instance of pacing-level therapy delivery by the implantable device;
• a representation of a cardiac signal acquired by the implantable device;
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• at least one of a printer and a display adapted to provide the indicator of pacing-level energy in visual association with a representation of a time of delivery of the pacing-level energy.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including a communication module, adapted for wireless communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• a threshold testing module, adapted for triggering electrostimulation therapy delivery by the implantable device at energies that vary between one or more instances of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
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• wherein the external user interface provides an output indicator of energy associated with an instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including a telemetry module, adapted for wireless communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• a threshold testing module, adapted for initiating pacing therapy delivery by the implantable device at energies that vary between one or more paces;
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• at least one of a printer and a display screen, the at least one of the printer and the display screen providing a printout including an electrogram, markers of paced and sensed events, and a separate indicator of energy associated with each of the paced markers.

A cardiac rhythm management system including:

• an external user interface, the user interface including a communication module, adapted for communicative coupling to an implantable device;
• a threshold testing module, adapted for initiating therapy delivery by the implantable device at energies that vary between one or more instances of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
• a visual output indicator of energy associated with an instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device;
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• a visual therapy marker associated with the instance of therapy delivery by the implantable device.

A method including:

• pacing a patient at varying energies;
• providing a separate visual output indicator of energy associated with each pace;
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• automatically varying the pacing energies during a threshold test based on a specified algorithm.

A method including:

• pacing a patient at varying energies;
• providing a separate visual output indicator of energy associated with each pace;
• and
• varying the pacing energies during a threshold test based on at least one user command.