Medical device interface system with automatic rate threshold adjustment

US7272444B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Les N. Peterson · Woodbury, US
• Paula Dieterle · Champlin, US
• Par Lindh · Maple Grove, US
• James Kalgren · Lino Lakes, US
• James O. Gilkerson · Stillwater, US
• Dorothy Marie Naumann · Stillwater, US
• Kenneth H. Persen · Maple Grove, US
• Mark Schwartz · White Bear Lake, US
• Tala L Bynum · Rogers, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 2004
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2007
• Expiry date: May 7, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S128/903
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical device programmer automatically adjusts parameters to be programmed to a medical device in response to a user modifying related parameters. Slide controllers on the programmer display screen can adjust parameters. In response to slide controller movement, the programmer automatically adjusts related parameters by moving their slide controllers. This graphically illustrates to the user the automatic adjustments being made to the related parameters. and the relationship between parameters being adjusted by the user and automatically. In response to on screen parameter changes, the system graphically illustrates the parameter values that are changed and those that are programmed to the medical device and those that would cause unsafe condition in the medical device if programmed. The method also prevents the programming to the medical device the parameters that would cause an unsafe condition.