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US 7,742,826 B2Granted
Intravenous pacemaker electrode
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMichael Maschke
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Abstract
An intravenous pacemaker electrode comprises an electrode cable featuring a conductor, a duct and an insulating sleeve as well as an electrode head attached to the distal end of the conductor in order to transmit stimulation pulses, with an OCT catheter being moveable in the duct, and comprising a thread-like guide element as well as an OCT measurement element attached to its distal end.
Claims14
The intravenous pacemaker electrode, comprising:
- an electrode cable, comprising:
- a conductor,
- a channel,
- an insulating sleeve,
- a pacemaker electrode head attached to a distal end of the electrode cable configured to transmit a plurality of stimulation pulses to a heart of a patient;
- an OCT catheter that moves in a duct and has a thread-like guide element;
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- an OCT measurement element attached to a distal end of the OCT measurement element for optical coherence tomography, wherein a distal end of the duct is axially distanced from the electrode head such that the OCT catheter can be moved beyond the duct towards the electrode head via an exit opening.
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A diagnosis and treatment device, comprising:
- an intravenous pacemaker electrode, comprising:
- an electrode cable, comprising,
- a conductor,
- a channel,
- an insulating sleeve,
- an electrode head attached to a distal end of the electrode cable configured to transmit a plurality of stimulation pulses to a heart of a patient;
- an OCT catheter that moves in a duct and has a thread-like guide element;
- an OCT measurement element attached to the distal end for optical coherence tomography;
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- an evaluation unit that interacts with the OCT measurement element of the pacemaker electrode and is programmed such that an influence of the pacemaker electrode is at least partially eliminated by the programming.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.