US3805796A - Implantable cardiac pacer having adjustable operating parameters - Google Patents
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US4390021A (en) * | 1981-03-23 | 1983-06-28 | Telectronics Pty. Ltd. | Two pulse tachycardia control pacer |
FR2526180A1 (en) * | 1982-04-30 | 1983-11-04 | Medtronic Inc | DIGITAL CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING THE PROGRESSIVE START-UP OF ELECTRIC TISSUE STIMULATORS |
US4561444A (en) * | 1981-08-10 | 1985-12-31 | Cordis Corporation | Implantable cardiac pacer having dual frequency programming and bipolar/linipolar lead programmability |
US4572191A (en) * | 1974-04-25 | 1986-02-25 | Mieczyslaw Mirowski | Command atrial cardioverter |
US5292342A (en) * | 1992-05-01 | 1994-03-08 | Medtronic, Inc. | Low cost implantable medical device |
US5324315A (en) * | 1993-08-12 | 1994-06-28 | Medtronic, Inc. | Closed-loop downlink telemetry and method for implantable medical device |
US5370668A (en) * | 1993-06-22 | 1994-12-06 | Medtronic, Inc. | Fault-tolerant elective replacement indication for implantable medical device |
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US5683432A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 1997-11-04 | Medtronic, Inc. | Adaptive, performance-optimizing communication system for communicating with an implanted medical device |
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US3877438A (en) * | 1974-02-07 | 1975-04-15 | American Optical Corp | Pacer with self-adjusting output |
US4572191A (en) * | 1974-04-25 | 1986-02-25 | Mieczyslaw Mirowski | Command atrial cardioverter |
US3949758A (en) * | 1974-08-01 | 1976-04-13 | Medtronic, Inc. | Automatic threshold following cardiac pacer |
US3945387A (en) * | 1974-09-09 | 1976-03-23 | General Electric Company | Implantable cardiac pacer with characteristic controllable circuit and control device therefor |
US4066086A (en) * | 1975-06-05 | 1978-01-03 | Medtronic, Inc. | Programmable body stimulator |
US3999557A (en) * | 1975-07-11 | 1976-12-28 | Medtronic, Inc. | Prophylactic pacemaker |
US4019518A (en) * | 1975-08-11 | 1977-04-26 | Medtronic, Inc. | Electrical stimulation system |
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US4049004A (en) * | 1976-02-02 | 1977-09-20 | Arco Medical Products Company | Implantable digital cardiac pacer having externally selectible operating parameters and "one shot" digital pulse generator for use therein |
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