Patent ID: 9592391
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61N

Claim:
1. A method of identifying a tachyarrhythmia of a heart of a patient, the method comprising: sensing cardiac activity by a first implantable medical device; sensing cardiac activity by a second implantable medical device, wherein the second implantable medical device is spaced from the first implantable medical device and communicatively coupled to the first implantable medical device via conducted communication through a communication pathway that includes the body of the patient; communicating sensed cardiac activity by the first implantable medical device to the second implantable medical device, the communicated sensed cardiac activity including sensed cardiac activity other than a determination or provisional determination of a tachyarrhythmia; and determining by the second implantable medical device if a tachyarrhythmia is occurring based, at least in part, on both the cardiac activity sensed by the second implantable medical device and the cardiac activity sensed by the first implantable medical device including at least some of the communicated sensed cardiac activity other than a determination or provisional determination of a tachyarrhythmia from the first implantable medical device.