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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);

Inventors:

Eric K. Enrooth, Lino Lakes, MN (US);

Sunipa Saha, Shoreview, MN (US);

Clayton S. Foster, Andover, MN (US);

Yanting Dong, Lexington, KY (US);

Assignee:

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/371 (2013.01); A61N 1/3714 (2013.01);
Abstract

Approaches for rate initialization and overdrive pacing used during capture threshold testing are described. Cardiac cycles are detected and the cardiac events of a cardiac chamber that occur during the cardiac cycles are monitored. The number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is counted. Initialization for a capture threshold test involves maintaining a pre-test pacing rate for the capture threshold test if the number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is less than a threshold. The pacing rate is increased for the capture threshold test if the number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is greater than the threshold.


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