Medtronic, Inc.

Medtronic, Ind.

Michael W Heinks

Todd Jon Sheldon

Subham Ghosh

Timothy A Ebeling

Xusheng Zhang

Jian L Cao

Paul R Solheim

Gerald P Arne

Saul E Greenhut

Joel A Anderson

Yanina Grinberg

Irving J Sanchez

James Vander Heyden

James D Reinke

Glenn M Roline

Shohan T Hossain

Wade M Demmer

Timothy J Denison

Karen J Kleckner

Robert T Sawchuk

Michael B Terry

Lonny V Cabelka

Wenxiao Tan

Troy Edward Jackson

John D Wahlstrand

Aleksandre T Sambelashvili

Joel R Lauer

Brian W Schousek

Joseph Ippolito

Jean E Hudson

Craig W Dorma

Mark A Frigaard

Paul D Baker

Michael T Hemming

Jonathan D Edmonson

Michael L Hudziak

Yuanzhen Liu

Alfonso Aranda Hernandez

Ross O Starkson

James J St Martin

Michael Kemmerer

Anthony W Schrock

Kent E Samuelson

Maureen E Lybarger

David W Graden

Robert H Mehregan

Lori Durose-Schrimpf

Robert W Sawchuk

Emily Carroll

A medical device is configured to receive cardiac electrical signals and sense ventricular event signals from the cardiac electrical signals. The medical device may start a validation window in response to sensing a ventricular event signal and determine if the ventricular event signal is a valid event signal or an invalid event signal based on processing of a different cardiac electrical signal than the cardiac electrical signal from which the ventricular event signal was sensed.

Medical device and method for cardiac pacing and sensing

An example device includes a memory configured to store representations of sensed signals. The example device includes processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry being configured to read or write the representations of the sensed signals in the memory. The example device includes sensing circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry, the sensing circuitry being configured to sense signals indicative of a physiological condition of a patient via a plurality of electrodes and to output to the processor circuitry the representations of the sensed signals. The sensing circuitry includes a switched capacitor charge pump configured to amplify the sensed signals to generate amplified signals.

Device with switched capacitor charge pump sensing circuitry

Implantable medical devices include a first sensor for detecting a magnetic field that indicates an exposure mode of operation is appropriate. The implantable medical devices include a second sensor for detecting whether an MRI characteristic is present that indicates whether MRI or non-MRI post exposure diagnostics and other actions should be implemented and may also indicate whether the exposure mode should be MRI or non-MRI specific. An MRI post exposure diagnostic may perform pacing capture threshold tests and the post exposure pacing amplitude output may be kept at a higher than normal level. The second sensor may be an overvoltage clamp circuit of a telemetry coil that indicates whether an overvoltage condition on the telemetry coil is occurring to indicate whether an MRI characteristic is present. The second sensor may be a second threshold magnetic sensor, an accelerometer, or a microphone to indicate whether an MRI characteristic is present.

Secondary verification of MRI exposure at an implantable medical device

An implantable medical device system capable of sensing cardiac electrical signals includes a sensing circuit, a therapy delivery circuit and a control circuit. The sensing circuit is configured to receive a cardiac electrical signal and sense a cardiac event in response to the signal crossing a cardiac event sensing threshold. The therapy delivery circuit is configured to deliver an electrical stimulation therapy to a patient's heart via the electrodes coupled to the implantable medical device. The control circuit is configured to control the sensing circuit to set a starting value of the cardiac event sensing threshold and hold the starting value constant for a sense delay interval. The control circuit is further configured to detect an arrhythmia based on cardiac events sensed by the sensing circuit and control the therapy delivery circuit to deliver the electrical stimulation therapy in response to detecting the arrhythmia.

Multi-threshold sensing of cardiac electrical signals in an extracardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator

An implantable medical device system is configured to sense cardiac events in response to a cardiac electrical signal crossing a cardiac event sensing threshold. A control circuit is configured to determine a drop time interval based on a heart rate and control a sensing circuit to hold the cardiac event sensing threshold at a threshold value during the drop time interval.

Multi-threshold sensing of cardiac electrical signals in an implantable medical device

An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) having a high voltage therapy module is configured to control a high voltage charging circuit to charge a capacitor to a pacing voltage amplitude to deliver charge balanced pacing pulses. The capacitor is chargeable to a shock voltage amplitude that is greater than the pacing voltage amplitude. The ICD is configured to enable switching circuitry of the high voltage therapy module to discharge the capacitor to deliver a first pulse having a first polarity and a leading voltage amplitude corresponding to the pacing voltage amplitude for pacing the patient's heart via a pacing electrode vector selected from extra-cardiovascular electrodes. The high voltage therapy module delivers a second pulse after the first pulse. The second pulse has a second polarity opposite the first polarity and balances the electrical charge delivered during the first pulse.

Charge balanced cardiac pacing from high voltage circuitry of an extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator system

A medical device is configured to set a post-atrial time interval in response to an atrial event and generate an event time signal in response to a ventricular electrical signal crossing an R-wave sensing threshold during the post-atrial time interval. The device accumulates oversensing evidence in response to the event time signal and adjusts a ventricular sensing control parameter based on the accumulated oversensing evidence in some examples.

Ventricular sensing control in a cardiac pacing system

An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) starts a timer set to a time interval in response to a cardiac electrical signal crossing a noise threshold amplitude and resets the timer to the time interval in response to each crossing of the noise threshold amplitude by the cardiac electrical signal that occurs prior to the time interval expiring. A control circuit of the ICD determines a parameter of the behavior of the timer and identifies a sensed cardiac event as an electromagnetic interference (EMI) event based on the parameter. The ICD may detect EMI in response to the EMI event and withhold a tachyarrhythmia detection or therapy in response to EMI detection.

Detection of electromagnetic interference in a cardiac electrical signal by an implantable medical device

An implantable pacemaker detects delivery of an anti-tachyarrhythmia shock by another device. The implantable pacemaker delivers cardiac stimulation therapy within a patient. The implantable pacemaker senses, via the electrode pair, an electrical signal. The implantable pacemaker detects the anti-tachyarrhythmia shock based on the sensed electrical signal by detecting DC voltage polarization across the electrode pair within the patient. The implantable pacemaker alters the cardiac stimulation therapy based on the detected anti-tachyarrhythmia shock.

Anti-tachyarrhythmia shock detection

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Michael W Heinks