Implantable system for the diagnostic and/or therapeutic treatment of a human patient or an animal patient

US11684787B2 · 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: Jun 27, 2023
• Expiry date: May 20, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H20/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An implantable system for the diagnostic and/or therapeutic treatment of a human or animal patient contains a processor, a memory, a treatment unit and a remote data transmission unit. The system is characterized in that the memory includes a computer-readable program which prompts the processor to carry out the following steps when the program is being executed on the processor: a) ascertaining whether a treatment functionality of the treatment unit could jeopardize a patient in whom the system was implanted if a diagnostic and/or therapeutic treatment of the patient corresponding to the treatment functionality were to be carried out; b) deactivating the treatment functionality when a potential risk for the patient was ascertained; c) receiving reactivation data by way of the remote data transmission unit; and d) reactivating the deactivated treatment functionality based on the received reactivation data.