Method and apparatus for detecting and discriminating tachycardia

US8437842B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Medtronic, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Xusheng Zhang · Shoreview, US
• Robert W. Stadler · Shoreview, US
• Saul E. Greenhut · Aurora, US
• Mark L. Brown · North Oaks, US
• Troy E. Jackson · New Brighton, US
• Teresa A. Whitman · Dayton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2010
• Grant date: May 7, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/3621
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical device and associated method obtaining cardiac event intervals corresponding to a tachycardia interval. Evidence of a rhythm breaking point is obtained in response to sensing a cardiac event having a morphology corresponding to a supraventricular beat. A non-treatable rhythm is detected in response to the plurality of cardiac event intervals and the evidence of the rhythm breaking point.