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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1998
Tran Thong, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Amiran Sh Revishvili, Moskau, RU;
Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co., Berlin, DE;
Abstract
A device for determining tachycardial heart rhythm disturbances, comprising: a stimulation pulse generator; a ventricular stimulation electrode; an electrode line; one sensor electrode each in the atrium and ventricle of a heart; an atrial action detecting device; a ventricular action detecting device; a timer; an atrial interval detecting device; a ventricular interval detecting device; a comparator unit which compares the chronological spacings of successive atrial actions and successive ventricular actions and outputs a stimulation inducing signal; an evaluation device for detecting and evaluating changes, caused by the ventricular stimulation pulse in the atrial intervals and for outputting a tachycardia classification signal that characterizes the outcome of the evaluation; and a stimulation control device connected on the output side to the stimulation pulse generator, for controlling the output of a train of stimulation pulses at such intervals as occur between the stimulation pulses of a plurality of spontaneous ventricular actions at a time, with the definition of an interval varying within the train in a predetermined way, of each ventricular stimulation pulse from the preceding or next expected spontaneous ventricular action.