Patent ID: 9409025
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: A61N

Claim Text:
1. An implantable medical device configured to provide a cardiac rhythm management (CRM) therapy to provide a physiologic system with a baseline response and configured to receive feedback from a transient nerve traffic response in a neural target within an autonomic nervous system (ANS), wherein perturbing the physiologic system causes the transient nerve traffic response before nerve traffic at the neural target returns to the baseline response, the device comprising: a CRM function module configured to apply the CRM therapy using an electrical signal to capture cardiac tissue, wherein the CRM therapy is configured to provide closed-loop cardiac stimulation to selected chambers of the heart in order to treat disorders of cardiac rhythm; a neural function module configured to sense nerve traffic in the neural target within the ANS; and a controller connected to the CRM function module and the neural function module, wherein the controller is configured to control the CRM therapy to provide closed-loop cardiac stimulation that causes the baseline response, implement a programmed protocol for receiving the feedback used to control the closed-loop cardiac stimulation, and adjust the CRM therapy using the feedback, wherein, in implementing the programmed protocol for receiving the feedback, the controller is configured to: