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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1998
Willis A Tacker, Jr, Redmond, WA (US);
Darrell O Wagner, Gold Bar, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An atrial defibrillation system monitors activity of a heart, detects atrial fibrillation, and cardioverts detected atrial fibrillation. The system includes an implantable atrial defibrillator including a plurality of operating stages for monitoring heart activity, detecting atrial fibrillation, and cardioverting atrial fibrillation, a message generator for generating messages indicative of operating stage operation status, and a transmitter to transmit the messages indicative of operating stage operating status. A nonimplantable communication device is dimensioned to be hand-held and includes a receiver for receiving the transmitted messages indicative of operating stage operation status, an addressable memory for storing a plurality of voice signals, a decoder responsive to received messages indicative of operating stage operation status for addressing selected ones of the stored voice signals, and a converter for converting the selected voice signals to audible sound.