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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
Applicant:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Vinayakrishnan Rajan, Maastricht, NL;
Berthold Stegemann, Bonn, DE;
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/368 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/3682 (2013.01); A61N 1/368 (2013.01); A61N 1/3684 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical device performs a method for controlling a cardiac pacing therapy. The device determines an inter-atrial conduction time (IACT) and compares the IACT to a threshold. A controller included in the device sets a pacing interval for controlling delivery of pacing pulses to a ventricle to a first ventricular pacing interval that expires after the IACT in response to the IACT being less than the threshold and sets the pacing interval to a second ventricular pacing interval that expires before the IACT in response to the IACT being greater than the threshold.