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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2014
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Allan C. Shuros, St. Paul, MN (US);
Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Bruce H. KenKnight, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Douglas R. Daum, Woodbury, MN (US);
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments intermittently deliver a sympathetic stimulus, including deliver a sequence of stress-inducing pacing pulses adapted to increase sympathetic tone during the stress-inducing pacing. The stress-inducing pacing results in a parasympathetic reflex after the sequence of stress-inducing pacing. The embodiment further delivers neural stimulation to elicit a parasympathetic response or a sympathetic response in a coordinated manner with respect to the sequence of stress-inducing pacing pulses. The neural stimulation is timed to elicit the parasympathetic response after the sequence of stress-inducing pacing pulses and concurrent with at least a portion of the parasympathetic reflex to the sequence of stress-inducing pacing to enhance a parasympathetic effect of the parasympathetic reflex, or to elicit the sympathetic response during the sequence of stress-inducing pulses to provide a larger sympathetic stimulus, resulting in an enhanced parasympathetic reflex in response to the large sympathetic stimulus.