Patent ID: 6579280
Filing Date: 2003-06-17
Classification: A61M,A61N,G16H

Abstract:
A method of programming a human-implantable therapeutic treatment device to perform a specific treatment protocol by downlinking a plurality of generic treatment protocol parameters to the device, the method comprising the steps of:downlinking at least one user-selectable treatment-step duration and at least one user-selectable treatment rate or dose corresponding, respectively, to a user-selectable number of one or more treatment steps, wherein the one or more treatment steps are defined, at least in part, by at least one treatment-step duration and at least one treatment rate or dose; downlinking at least one user-selectable number that is greater than 1 and that indicates a number of treatment steps to be included in one or more corresponding treatment-step groups; downlinking at least one treatment-step-group repetition count for at least one of the treatment-step groups having more than one treatment step, the treatment-step-group repetition count specifying how many times the at least one of the treatment-step groups should be performed and the treatment-step-group repetition count being capable of specifying a finite number of treatment-step-group repetitions; and downlinking at least one user-selectable treatment-step-group duration for at least one of the treatment-step groups having more than one treatment step.