Patent ID: 9061164
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for treating arrhythmia in a patient utilizing an electrotherapy device, the method comprising: causing the electrotherapy device to administer medium voltage therapy (MVT) as a series of repeated, time-coordinated, applications of MVT waveforms to first and second target regions of a patient, wherein the first target region has primarily skeletal musculature, and the second target region has primarily myocardial musculature, in response to a detection of a presence of an arrhythmia treatable by high-voltage therapy (HVT) based on automated patient monitoring by the electrotherapy device; causing the electrotherapy device to administer the HVT in response to the detection of the presence of the arrhythmia treatable by the HVT, and in time-coordinated response to a sequence of the time-coordinated applications of the MVT; wherein the time-coordinated applications of the MVT include a first MVT waveform to the first target region and a second MVT waveform to the second target region, such that the HVT is synchronized relative to at least one of: (a) a first compression cycle corresponding to activation of the first target region, and (b) a second compression cycle corresponding to activation of the second target region, resulting from the administration of the MVT.