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Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2002
Applicants:

Vinod Sharma, Blaine, MN (US);

Paul J. Degroot, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);

Rahul Mehra, Stillwater, MN (US);

Inventors:

Vinod Sharma, Blaine, MN (US);

Paul J. Degroot, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);

Rahul Mehra, Stillwater, MN (US);

Assignee:

Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/362 (2006.01); A61N 1/38 (2006.01); A61N 1/39 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus for discriminating between cardiac events that includes an input circuit receiving signals indicative of the cardiac events, a first output circuit generating pulses in response to the received signals, and a microprocessor determining whether a signal received by the input circuit subsequent to the generated pacing pulses corresponds to a predetermined cardiac event in response to an elapsed time period between the generated pulses and the subsequently received signal and a predetermined discrimination threshold.


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