Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Contingent cardio-protection for epilepsy patients
-
Application No.: US16729689Application Date: 2019-12-30
-
Publication No.: US11272874B2Publication Date: 2022-03-15
- Inventor: Ivan Osorio
- Applicant: Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
- Applicant Address: US KS Lawrence
- Assignee: Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
- Current Assignee: Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
- Current Assignee Address: US KS Lawrence
- Agency: CP3
- Agent Stephen Eisenmann
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61B5/0205 ; A61B5/08 ; A61B5/11 ; A61B5/113 ; A61B5/318 ; A61B5/021 ; A61N1/36 ; A61B5/026 ; A61B5/0245 ; A61N1/365 ; A61B5/024 ; A61B5/0531 ; A61B7/04 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B5/389
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.
Information query
