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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2008
Applicant:
Hans-juergen Bruns, Muenster, DE;
Inventor:
Hans-Juergen Bruns, Muenster, DE;
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method of optimizing a pacing heart rate. The method can include obtaining a preload-frequency relation and a force-frequency relation from histogram data for a patient condition and determining an optimal pacing heart rate for the patient condition. The optimal pacing heart rate can be substantially between a first heart rate corresponding to a minimum preload condition based on the preload-frequency relation and a second heart rate corresponding to a sustained ionotropic reserve condition based on the force-frequency relation.