Patent ID: 7725184
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing one or more templates representative of one or more of a patient's past tachyarrhythmia events, the one or more templates associated in memory with a therapy to treat tachyarrhythmia events; detecting a cardiac waveform; matching a particular template of the one or more templates with the cardiac waveform; delivering the therapy based on the match between the particular template and the cardiac waveform; and determining whether the therapy was unsatisfactory in terminating an arrhythmia associated with the particular template and, if the therapy is determined unsatisfactory, eliminating the therapy as an option for treating a subsequent tachyarrhythmia event associated in memory with the particular template and associating in memory the particular template with a new therapy.