Implantable system for stimulating a human heart or an animal heart

US11628303B2 · 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: Apr 18, 2023
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H40/67
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An implantable system for stimulating a human heart or an animal heart contains a processor, a memory unit, an atrial stimulation unit, and a detection unit for detecting atrial tachycardia. The system is characterized in that the memory unit stores a computer-readable program, which prompts the processor to carry out the following steps when the program is being executed on the processor: a) detecting by way of the detection unit whether atrial tachycardia to be treated is present in a human heart or an animal heart; b) when atrial tachycardia to be treated is present, applying atrial antitachycardia pacing by way of the atrial stimulation unit; and c) after the atrial antitachycardia pacing has been applied, carrying out an atrial post-treatment stimulation, the post-treatment stimulation being configured to be within a range of 1 minute up to 7 days.