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Mode switching by a ventricular leadless pacing device

US9492669B2 · kind B2 · utility

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220References

29Claims

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Assignee

Medtronic, Inc. · US

Inventors

Wade M. Demmer · Coon Rapids, US
Todd J. Sheldon · North Oaks, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 11, 2014
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 26, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N1/36507
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In some examples, a leadless pacing device (hereinafter, “LPD”) is configured for implantation in a ventricle of a heart of a patient, and is configured to switch between an atrio-ventricular synchronous pacing mode and an asynchronous ventricular pacing mode in response to detection of one or more sensing events, which may be, for example, undersensing events. In some examples, an LPD is configured to switch from a sensing without pacing mode to an atrio-ventricular synchronous pacing mode in response to determining, for a threshold number of cardiac cycles, a ventricular depolarization was not detected within a ventricular event detection window that begins at an atrial activation event.

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