Dosed delivery of autonomic modulation therapy

A system, comprising:

• a programming system with a dose programming interface configured for use by a clinician to program a value for a programmable neural stimulation (NS) dose as a number of NS pulse per cardiac cycle, the programming system with the dose programming interface being configured to display a dose meter to provide an indicator of a dose over a period of time including a total charge delivered over the period of time, and the indicator of the dose provided on the displayed dose meter being for a current user programmable NS dose, or for a user proposed NS dose, or for both the current user programmable NS dose and the user proposed NS dose;
• a cardiac cycle monitor configured to monitor cardiac events within cardiac cycles;
• a neural stimulator configured to deliver NS to the autonomic neural target;
• a memory configured to store the programmable NS dose parameter for an intermittent neural stimulation (INS) therapy, the programmable NS dose parameter including the value for the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle;
• a communication system configured to receive programming instructions for the NS dose parameter including the value for the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle, and store the value for the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle in the memory;
• a controller configured to control the neural stimulator to deliver the INS therapy to the autonomic neural target, wherein the controller, the memory, the neural stimulator and the cardiac cycle monitor are configured to cooperate to implement a process to deliver the INS therapy, comprising:
• sensing a cardiac event within a cardiac cycle;
• and
• delivering NS bursts of NS pulses, including timing delivery of the NS bursts using the sensed cardiac events within the cardiac cycles, including delivering the number of NS pulses per cardiac cycle during a first portion of a cardiac cycle, a remaining portion of the cardiac cycle being without NS pulses.