Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Use of an implantable cardiac pacing, defibrilation and/or resynchronization generator as a VNS generator for vagus nerve stimulation
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Application No.: US14675291Application Date: 2015-03-31
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Publication No.: US09884194B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Thierry Legay , Hervé Blumstein , Guillaume Chatalic , Christine Henry
- Applicant: SORIN CRM SAS
- Applicant Address: FR Clamart
- Assignee: SORIN CRM SAS
- Current Assignee: SORIN CRM SAS
- Current Assignee Address: FR Clamart
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: FR1452863 20140401
- Main IPC: A61N1/368
- IPC: A61N1/368 ; A61N1/365 ; A61N1/39 ; A61N1/36 ; A61N1/372

Abstract:
On a channel of an implantable cardiac generator, a cardiac lead is replaced by a vagus nerve stimulation VNS lead. The control circuit controlling the stimulation circuit of this channel of the generator is configured to generate sequences of VNS neurostimulation bursts according to a specific profile, synchronized or not with the heart rate. The control circuit dynamically controls the initial load voltage of the reservoir capacitor so as to adjust to a constant target value the electrical charge delivered to the nerve by each stimulating pulse, from a pulse to the next one and from a burst to the next one. This improves the consistency of the physiological effects of neurostimulation despite significant variations that may occur in impedance at the electrode/vagus nerve interface.
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