Patents Assigned to CYBERONICS
  • CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS
    Publication number: 20160074660
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for treating epilepsy by stimulating a main trunk of a vagus nerve, or a left vagus nerve, when the patient has had no seizure or a seizure that is not characterized by cardiac changes such as an increase in heart rate, and stimulating a cardiac branch of a vagus nerve, or a right vagus nerve, when the patient has had a seizure characterized by cardiac changes such as a heart rate increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: CYBERONICS
    Inventors: Ivan Osorio, Timothy Scott