Implantable system for treating a human heart or an animal heart

US11504542B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Doerr · Berlin, DE
• Sergey Ershov · Berlin, DE
• Torsten Radtke · Berlin, DE
• Martin Roemer · Berlin, DE
• Ingo Weiss · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2020
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/3686
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An implantable system for treating a heart contains a processor, a memory unit, a treatment unit including a treatment electrode, and a detection unit for detecting a cardiac event requiring treatment. The memory unit includes a computer-readable program, which prompts the processor to perform the following steps: a) detecting by way of the detection unit whether a cardiac event to be treated has occurred in the heart; b) if a cardiac event to be treated has occurred, determining a position of the treatment electrode or determining a variable correlating with this position; and c) comparing the position of the treatment electrode or the variable correlating with the position to a reference variable, and carrying out, or not carrying out a cardiac treatment by way of the treatment unit and the treatment electrode as a function of the position of the treatment electrode or the variable correlating with the position.