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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2006
Applicants:
Luca Vitali, Strambino, IT;
Elodie Vincent, Antony, FR;
Inventors:
Luca Vitali, Strambino, IT;
Elodie Vincent, Antony, FR;
Assignee:
ELA Medical S.A.S., Montrouge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An active implantable medical device for diagnosis and/or therapy that is able to detect the occurrence of apnea and hypopnea. The detection of an occurrence of respiratory apneae or hypopneae is performed by collecting the patient's endocardial acceleration (EA), and determining at least one parameter, i.e., a peak acceleration, (PEA I, PEA II) that is a function of this collected endocardial acceleration. An apnea or hypopnea alert signal is then conditionally delivered as a function of the value taken by this (these) parameter(s).