Patent ID: 8600500
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method to provide a neural stimulation (NS) therapy to assist anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) therapy, the method comprising: detecting a tachyarrhythmia and identifying a type associated with the tachyarrhythmia; delivering an NS therapy utilizing a first NS operating configuration; before and after delivery of the NS therapy, measuring characteristic values for a rate-related physiologic characteristic (rate RPC) and for a stability-related physiologic characteristic (stability RPC), the rate RPC indicative of a frequency of at least one of an reentrant circuit and a focal trigger driving the tachyarrhythmia, the stability RPC indicative at least one of a spatio-temporal stability of the arrhythmia and underlying electrical substrate, analyzing the characteristic values for the rate and stability RPCs for differences, between the rate and stability RPCs, pre-NS and post-NS therapy to determine a rate RPC difference and a stability RPC difference; and delivering different ATP therapies based on the type associated with the tachyarrhythmia, the rate RPC difference and the stability RPC difference.