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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1994
Julio C Spinelli, Shoreview, MN (US);
Jan P Heemels, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A DDD-type cardiac pacemaker having a microprocessor-based controller is programmed to automatically determine and utilize and optimize A-V delay for the patient in whom the device is implanted. The microprocessor-based controller periodically changes the A-V delay and then computes heart rate variability over an insuing predetermined period. The particular A-V delay value associated with the minimum heart rate variability index is determined to be the optimum. Heart rate variability may be determined by performing a power spectrum analysis on cyclic variations in R-R intervals, preferably using a FFT signal processing chip, or by a time domain analysis based upon the standard deviation of R-R intervals during a prescribed period of time and a calculated value of respiratory sinus arrhythmia. The apparatus is also operative to optimize the A-V delay interval following a change in the pacing mode of the DDD-type pacemaker.