Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Eric R. Waldkoetier
  • Pressure-modulated rate-responsive cardiac pacing
    Patent number: 6580946
    Abstract: Techniques for pacing the heart of a patient as a function of an intra-cardiac pressure make use of a pressure monitor that receives a pressure signal from a pressure sensor in the patient's right ventricle. The pressure monitor estimates the patient's pulmonary artery diastolic pressure. A rate-responsive pacemaker paces the patient's heart as a function of the estimated pulmonary artery diastolic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Chester Struble