Implantable cardiac stimulator with automatic gain control and bandpass filtering in feedback loop
An implantable cardiac stimulator for detecting and treating cardiac arrhythmias includes a sense amplifier (25) responsive to sensed cardiac signals for detecting and distinguishing normal and abnormal cardiac activity within the sensed signals. The sense amplifier includes an automatic gain contro...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English French German |
Published |
20.03.1996
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Edition | 5 |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | An implantable cardiac stimulator for detecting and treating cardiac arrhythmias includes a sense amplifier (25) responsive to sensed cardiac signals for detecting and distinguishing normal and abnormal cardiac activity within the sensed signals. The sense amplifier includes an automatic gain control amplifier (60), a filter (70) and quad comparator (80) having a pair of signal channels for processing the sensed signals according to different frequency bandpass characteristics to establish sensing thresholds, margins and signal gain. The sense amplifier has a feedback loop (65) containing a microprocessor (68) which implements preselected algorithms in conjunction with the outputs of the quad comparator to variably adjust the amplifier gain and to programmably control the sensing margin. |
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Bibliography: | Application Number: EP19890305623 |