Acquiring nerve activity from carotid body and/or sinus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9014809-B2
Application number	US-201213663702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2012
Priority date	Dec 27, 2007
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment includes acquiring an electroneurogram of the right carotid sinus nerve or the left carotid sinus nerve, analyzing the electroneurogram for at least one of chemosensory information and barosensory information and calling for one or more therapeutic actions based at least in part on the analyzing. Therapeutic actions may aim to treat conditions such as sleep apnea, an increase in metabolic demand, hypoglycemia, hypertension, renal failure, and congestive heart failure. Other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
administering a treatment to a patient to cause at least one of a decrease or increase in the patient's arterial oxygen concentration;
acquiring an electroneurogram indicative of at least a first carotid sinus nerve activity and changes therein that occur in response to the at least one of a decrease or increase in the patient's arterial oxygen concentration that result from the administrating;
analyzing the electroneurogram to…

Assignees

• Pacesetter Inc

Inventors

• Wenzel Brian J
• Farazi Taraneh Ghaffari

Classifications

• A61N1/36117

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61N1/36514

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/7264

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61N1/36564

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/04001

  Human Necessities · mapped topic