Abstract: An electrostimulator having electrode connections which are to be connected, at least at times, to a stimulation unit and to a detection unit of the electrostimulator. The stimulation unit is adapted to generate electrostimulation pulses for the stimulation of body tissue and to deliver the electrostimulation pulses to at least one of the electrode connections. The detection unit is adapted to detect successful stimulation of body tissue on the basis of an electrical signal occurring at least one of the electrode connections. The electrostimulator is adapted to record an electrical signal representative of an intracardial electrocardiogram by way of the at least one electrode connection. Arranged between the electrode line connection and the detection unit is a high pass filter with a lower limit frequency of greater than 100 Hz, and the detection unit is adapted to evaluate the high pass-filtered electrical signal.

Abstract: A method of calculating the heart rate variability of the human heart to be used in an ECG monitor comprises the following procedural steps: scanning of the ECG signal received from the ECG monitor during a scanning interval, determining from the scanned ECG signals a number of discrete measuring values representative of the heart rate variability, and evaluating these measuring values on the basis of the Fourier transformation, wherein the frequency spectre of the measuring values is calculated from the Fourier coefficients of the Fourier transformation, which are for their turn calculated from a combination of said measuring values with the sinus- and cosinus-shaped Fourier vectors of the Fourier transformation wherein the Fourier vectors are involved in the calculation in the form of a number of discrete real numerical vector values, and replacing of the numerical vector values for calculating the frequency spectrumof the scanned measuring values by rough, integral approximate vector values of a limite

Abstract: A neural electrode arrangement comprises an elastically deformable carrier body defining a cylindrical internal space therein, and at least one electrode which is fixedly connected to the carrier body and which is in peripherally touchingly operative relationship with the internal space in the carrier body. The electrode is formed from an elongated wire coil.

Abstract: A method of calculating the heart rate variability of the human heart to be used in an ECG monitor comprises the following procedural steps:

Abstract: A self-calibrating adaptive-rate cardiac pacemaker having a measuring and processing device for measuring the course over time of a physiological variable over a predetermined portion of a heart cycle and for obtaining a course parameter from the course over time, a stimulation parameter determining device downstream of the measuring and processing device and controlled by a sequence controller for determining a stimulation parameter value, in particular the adaptive stimulation rate, a body sensor connected to one input of the stimulation parameter determining device, for detecting an exertion variable, whose signal is used jointly with the course parameter to determine the stimulation parameter value, and a stimulator unit for generating and outputting stimulation pulses at the determined stimulation parameter value.