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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
David W. Yost, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Deepa Mahajan, Circle Pines, MN (US);
Clayton S. Foster, Andover, MN (US);
Aaron R. McCabe, Edina, MN (US);
Shibaji Shome, Arden Hills, MN (US);
Amy Jean Brisben, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Cardiac electrostimulation energy is delivered to a heart chamber of a subject according to a normal pacing mode using a set of implantable pacing electrodes. When a threshold test for the heart chamber is initiated and a sensing electrode independent from the set of pacing electrodes is unavailable for the heart chamber, cardiac electrostimulation energy is delivered to the subject according to a threshold test mode. The threshold test mode includes sensing a cardiac activity signal from a subject using a set of sensing electrodes that includes an electrode common to the set of pacing electrodes, and changing the electrostimulation energy and sensing a resulting cardiac activity signal using the set of sensing electrodes to determine the optimum electrostimulation energy for capture of the heart chamber.