Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Contingent cardio-protection for epilepsy patients
- Patent Title (中): 或有癫痫患者的心脏保护
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Application No.: US13601099Application Date: 2012-08-31
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Publication No.: US09314633B2Publication Date: 2016-04-19
- Inventor: Ivan Osorio , Timothy L. Scott
- Applicant: Ivan Osorio , Timothy L. Scott
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston US KS Lawrence
- Assignee: CYBERONICS, INC.,FLINT HILLS SCIENTIFIC LLC
- Current Assignee: CYBERONICS, INC.,FLINT HILLS SCIENTIFIC LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston US KS Lawrence
- Main IPC: A61N1/36
- IPC: A61N1/36 ; A61N1/05
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120330369A1 CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS Public/Granted day:2012-12-27
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