Patents by Inventor David Fischell

David Fischell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20060265020
    Abstract: A programmer is provided for an implantable medical device capable of detecting cardiac events in a human patient. The programmer has a two-way wireless data communication mechanism with the implantable medical device and a graphical user interface is included which has a display and input mechanism designed for use in programming patient specific parameters for the detection of ST shift related cardiac events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: David Fischell, Jonathan Harwood, Steven Johnson, Tim Fischell
  • Publication number: 20060224216
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling epilepsy and other neurological disorders by providing electrical stimulation to a patient's brain in response to detected neurological conditions. An implantable device includes a stimulation subsystem coupled to a stimulation electrode to provide responsive electrical brain stimulation in response to an event detected via an on-board processor's analysis of data received from a detection subsystem coupled to a detection electrode located in a different portion of the patient's brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Benjamin Pless, Robert Fischell, David Fischell
  • Publication number: 20060212085
    Abstract: A patient diagnostic emergency room triage system includes an implanted cardiac device which may be a cardiosaver, pacemaker or cardiac defibrillator for recording electrogram data associated with the detection of a cardiac event. A communication mechanism receives electrogram data from the implanted cardiac device and a visual display displays the electrogram data recorded by the implanted cardiac device. The visual display permits displaying electrogram data associated with an ST segment related cardiac event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: David Fischell, Jonathan Harwood
  • Publication number: 20060212092
    Abstract: An interactive implantable medical device system includes an implantable medical device and a network-enabled external device capable of bi-directional communication and interaction with the implantable medical device. The external device is programmed to interact with other similarly-enabled devices. The system facilitates improved patient care by eliminating unnecessary geographic limitations on implantable medical device interrogation and programming, and by allowing patients, physicians, and other users to access medical records, history, and information and to receive status and care-related alerts and messages anywhere there is access to a communications network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Benjamin Pless, David Fischell, Barbara Gibb, Lisa Guzzo, Adrian Upton
  • Publication number: 20060205993
    Abstract: A system for treating neurological conditions by low-frequency time varying electrical stimulation includes an electrical device for applying such low-frequency energy, in a range below approximately 10 Hz, to the patient's brain tissue. An implantable embodiment applies direct electrical stimulation to electrodes implanted in or on the patient's brain, while a non-invasive embodiment causes a magnetic field to induce electrical currents in the patient's brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: David Fischell, Adrian Upton
  • Publication number: 20060069423
    Abstract: If however, the angiography with the contrast medium indicates that an edge dissection has occurred, then the fixed guidewire stent delivery catheter would be left in place with its balloon deflated. The Luer fitting at the proximal end of the stent delivery catheter would then be cut off and a rescue in the form of a rescue catheter would be advanced over the stent delivery catheter. The rescue catheter would then be advanced until its distal end extended distally beyond the site of the edge dissection. The fixed wire stent delivery catheter would then be pulled out of the body through the rescue catheter and a conventional guidewire would be inserted through the rescue catheter. The rescue catheter would then be removed leaving the guidewire in place. A conventional stent delivery catheter would then be used to deliver a second stent to the site of the intimal dissection at the edge of the first implanted stent, thus repairing the dissection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: David Fischell, Robert Burgermeister
  • Publication number: 20050281860
    Abstract: An anti-proliferative drug, such as rapamycin or taxol, is placed onto or within a sheet of material or mesh. The strands onto or into which the drug is placed may be either a permanent implant or it may be biodegradable. Surgical sutures or staples may also be coated and used for connecting human tissues (i.e., for example, an anastomosis).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: Afmedica, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Fischell, David Fischell, Tim Fischell, Scott Fischell
  • Publication number: 20050256417
    Abstract: A patient diagnostic emergency room triage system includes an implanted cardiac device which may be a cardiosaver, pacemaker or cardiac defibrillator for recording electrogram data associated with the detection of a cardiac event. A communication mechanism receives electrogram data from the implanted cardiac device and a visual display displays the electrogram data recorded by the implanted cardiac device. The visual display permits displaying electrogram data associated with an ST segment related cardiac event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: David Fischell, Jonathan Harwood
  • Publication number: 20050246011
    Abstract: A method for implanting a balloon expandable stent at a site within a passageway of a curved coronary article. The stent includes at least two longitudinally spaced apart circumferential rings. At least one longitudinally extending connector extends between adjacent rings. The connector has at least one turn back portion that can expand or contract in length while being passed through a curved passageway. The stent is disposed on a stent delivery catheter having an inflatable balloon. The stent delivery catheter and the stent is delivered through the passageway to the site of implementation with the connector member expanding or contracting in length to facilitate delivery and placement of the stent. The stent is expanded at the site of implantation by inflating the balloon to force the stent radially outward against the wall of the coronary artery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Fischell, David Fischell, Tim Fischell
  • Publication number: 20050165321
    Abstract: A system for the detection of cardiac events occurring in a human patient is provided. At least two electrodes are included in the system for obtaining an electrical signal from a patient's heart. An electrical signal processor is electrically coupled to the electrodes for processing the electrical signal and a patient alarm means is further provided and electrically coupled to the electrical signal processor. The patient alarm means generates an escalating sensory alarm signal over a predetermined time period subsequent to the electrical signal processor if the processor detects a cardiac event. The patient alarm means may be further applied to a pacemaker or defibrillator system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: David Fischell, Jonathan Harwood, Mary Day
  • Publication number: 20050137483
    Abstract: The present invention is a system that utilizes optimized high pass or band pass filtering to provide accurate detection of changes in the ST segment of an electrogram as detected by an implanted cardiosaver system, which ST segment changes are indicative of coronary ischemia. To accurately detect changes in the ST segment of the electrogram, the cardiosaver system uses either analog or digital high pass filtering having an electrogram voltage reduction of 6 dB at some frequency between 0.05 Hz and 1.0 Hz with less than 6 dB of attenuation at frequencies above 1.0 Hz. and more than 6 dB of attenuation for frequencies below 0.05 Hz. The optimized filter would include attenuation of electric power generation frequencies of either 50 Hz or 60 Hz to reduce electromagnetic interference. The system also includes both implanted and external portions that provide a patient alarm if coronary ischemia is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Fischell, David Fischell, Tim Fischell
  • Publication number: 20050113907
    Abstract: A drug-eluting intravascular stent comprising an anti-restenosis agent covered by a biodegradable coating, and a method for treating vulnerable plaque in coronary vessels using said stent is disclosed. The biodegradable layer covers at least a portion of the drug-eluting layer of the stent, and is adapted to slowly erode over a preset period of time, preventing the release of therapeutic amounts of the anti-restenosis agent from the drug-eluting layer during the preset period. By delaying the release of the anti-restenosis agent, a thin layer of neointima will grow during the preset period. This tissue growth is sufficient to encapsulate the stent and cover the vulnerable plaque, but not significant enough to cause harmful restenosis or occlusion of the vessel. Once the biodegradable coating is eroded, the anti-restenosis agent begins release from the drug-eluting layer, and the progression of neointimal hyperplasia ceases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventor: David Fischell
  • Publication number: 20050113705
    Abstract: Disclosed is a “tracker system” that includes implanted electrical leads which are part of an implanted cardiotracker plus external equipment that includes external alarm means and a physician's programmer. The tracker system is designed to monitor the degradation of a patient's cardiovascular condition from one or more causes. These causes include the rejection of a transplanted heart and/or the progression of a stenosis in a coronary artery. As one or more stenoses in a coronary artery become progressively more narrow thereby causing reduced blood flow to the heart muscle coronary circulation, the tracker system can alert the patient by either or both internal and/or external alarm means to take the appropriate medical action. The physician's programmer can be used to display histograms of key heart signal parameters that are indicative of the patient's cardiovascular condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: David Fischell, Robert Fischell, Jonathan Harwood, Steven Johnson
  • Publication number: 20050113886
    Abstract: An implantable medical system for implantation within the body of a patient is provided. The system includes an implanted device having an implant casing and a long range telemetry sub-system housed therein. The system also includes an implantable lead operationally coupled to the implanted device and an antenna coupled to the implant casing to extend therefrom. The antenna is operationally coupled to the long-range telemetry sub-system to enable wireless bi-directional communication between the long range telemetry sub-system and predetermined external equipment disposed outside the body of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: David Fischell, Gregg Turi, Steven Johnson
  • Publication number: 20050049680
    Abstract: The method for use of the present invention stent and stent delivery system is to insert a first guidewire into the branch vessel and advance the stent delivery system until the marker at the distal end of the split proximal end is aligned with the downstream edge of the sidebranch ostium. The balloon is then inflated to deliver the stent into the sidebranch. If the two zone balloon is being used as a stent delivery system, the initial inflation will cause the split proximal end to flare apart. If the stent is delivered on a standard balloon angioplasty catheter, then a second balloon of larger diameter would be used to post-dilate the proximal end of the split end stent. A stent is then advanced into the main branch and deployed, further spreading the split proximal and of the split end sidebranch stent outward against the wall of the main branch. A guidewire is then placed through the main branch stent and the opening into the sidebranch is enlarged using balloon inflation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Tim Fischell, David Fischell, Robert Burgermeister, Randy-David Grishaber