Patent ID: 8175699
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A61H,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of regulating standard-deviating values of heartbeat rate and/or blood pressure, wherein ear-region-located endings of neurons of tractus solitarius are stimulated by groups of successive electrical pulses generated by a therapeutic-current generator that is adjustable with respect to the point of time of starting the pulse groups, and wherein said stimulation is effected in cycle with the heartbeat cycle, and wherein an electrocardiogram signal is formed for this purpose by means of a sensor for electrical cardiac-action potentials provided on the patient's body, said electrocardiogram signal being supplied to a trigger circuit which responds to the occurrence of a predefined value in the electrocardiogram signal, and which triggers an adjustable time-delay stage provided in the therapeutic-current generator, said time delay stage starting to deliver a pulse group after a respectively set delay time, wherein the point of time of starting the individual pulse groups is provided in the systolic region of the heartbeat cycle by adjusting the delay time, with the point of time of starting being temporally displaced with respect to the R wave of the electrocardiogram signal, and wherein first a base value of the delay time is set at the beginning of a regulation treatment, and wherein the delay time will thereafter be slowly changed for bringing the values to be regulated closer to standard values, wherein the delay time is slowly changed taking into account the stimulation-produced changes in the values to be regulated.