Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete Gmbh & Co Ingenieurbuero Berlin

Biotronik Mass- Und Therapiegerate Gmbh & Co. Ingenieurbuero Berlin

Biotronki Mess - Und Therapiegeraete Gmbh & Co. Ingenieurbuero Berlin

Berhard Lang

Johannes Neudecker

Jens Potschadtke

Martin Lang

Michael Kraus

Klemens Beetz

Axel Nagelschmidt

A method and apparatus for data transmission between an electromedical implant having a first transmitter/receiver unit, such as a cardiological implant, and an associated external apparatus having a second transmitter/receiver unit. Data transmission begins with a triggering signal which is sent by the first transmitter/receiver unit in normal operation in predeterminable first intervals. Reception readiness of the first transmitter/receiver unit is maintained after emission of the triggering signal for a second time interval which is shorter than the first time interval.

Method and apparatus for data transmission between an electromedical implant and an external apparatus

An electromedical implant comprising a telemetry device for the exchange of data with an external apparatus is provided. The telemetry device comprising a transmitting device and a receiving device, wherein a separate energy storage means is provided for each of the transmitting device and the receiving device. A method of using an electromedical implant comprising a telemetry device for the exchange of data is also provided.

Electromedical implant

A method of after-care in relation to patients with at least one electromedical implant. Data is transmitted from the implant to an external apparatus providing information for an examining clinician on the occasion of an after-care examination of the patient in an after-care arrangement. In an after-care interrogation up-to-date available data of the implant are interrogated and sent for output to corresponding output means, the data interrogation operation being effected prior to the after-care examination automatically after the patient enters an interrogation region of the after-care arrangement.

Method of data interrogation in implant after-care

Apparatus for the transmission of at least first data from an electronic device ( ), in particular an electromedical implant such as a cardiac pacemaker, to a monitoring arrangement ( ), including at least a first interface device ( ), with at least one input unit for the first data, a control device ( ) connected to the first interface device ( ) and a mobile radio device ( ) connected to the control device at least for the transmission of the first data to the monitoring arrangement ( ) by way of a telecommunication network which is at least in part in the form of a mobile radio network, wherein there is provided at least one second interface device ( ) connected to the control device ( ) for connecting the control device to a fixed-line telecommunication network.

Apparatus for the transmission of data in particular from an electromedical implant

An electromedical implant ( ), in particular a cardiac pacemaker, comprising a telemetry device at least for the communication of data to an external apparatus ( ), which includes a transmitting device with a transmitter, wherein the transmitter includes an oscillator comprising a first transistor ( ) and a resonator ( ), and a second transistor ( ) forming a buffer stage and an antenna driver.

Transmitter of the telemetry device of an implant

A method of monitoring patients with at least one electromedical implant, in which at least one first data transmission is effected between the implant provided with a first transmitting/receiving device and at least one external apparatus provided with a second transmitting/receiving device. At least first data are transmitted from the implant to the external apparatus and at least one second data transmission is effected between the external apparatus and at least one central storage arrangement for the storage of first data, by a telecommunication connection which is at least partially made by way of a mobile radio network. The transmission at least of the first data to the central storage arrangement is effected by way of the portion, formed by the mobile radio network, of the telecommunication connection in the form of at least one SM-string (Short Message String).

Method of data transmission in implant monitoring

An electromedical implant ( ), in particular a cardiac pacemaker, having a close-range telemetry device for data exchange with an external apparatus ( ), which includes at least a close-range antenna ( ) and a close-range transmitter/receiver unit with a close-range transmitter ( ), a telemetry unit ( ) connected thereto and an antenna interface device ( ) which is connected to the telemetry unit ( ) and by way of which the close-range antenna ( ) is connected to the close-range transmitter/receiver unit, wherein there is provided a long-range transmitter ( ) connected to the telemetry unit ( ) to provide a long-range telemetry device.

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