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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2021
Biotronik SE & Co. KG, Berlin, DE;
Madeline Anne Midgett, Portland, OR (US);
Burkhard Huegerich, Portland, OR (US);
R. Hollis Whittington, Portland, OR (US);
BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
An implantable medical device for stimulating a heart, comprising a control unit, a memory unit, a stimulation unit for stimulating a cardiac region of a heart, and a detection unit for detecting an electrical signal of the heart. The memory unit comprises a computer-readable program that causes the control unit to perform the following steps: a) detecting capture thresholds during an observation period, each capture threshold detected in response to a sequence of pacing pulses delivered by the stimulation unit; b) storing the detected capture thresholds in the memory unit; c) determining threshold-to-threshold differences between two consecutive capture thresholds; and d) if a maximum determined threshold-to-threshold difference within the observation period is equal to or greater than a predetermined limit, adjusting a pacing output of the stimulation unit based on the maximum capture threshold determined within a first time period which is equal to or shorter than the observation period.