Patent ID: 6832113
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
An external programmer device for programming pacing parameters of an implanted cardiac pacing device for providing pacing to the heart of a patient in which the pacing device is implanted, comprising:a transmitter for transmitting programming instructions from the programmer device to the implanted cardiac pacing device to program pacing parameters of the implanted cardiac pacing device; a finger plethysmogram signal detector for providing a finger plethysmogram signal when attached to a finger of the patient in which the cardiac pacing device is implanted; and a programmer processor coupled to the transmitter and the finger detector and programmed to process the finger plethysmogram signal, to generate programming instructions to be transmitted to the implanted cardiac pacing device to control the implanted cardiac pacing device to pace the heart for a plurality of series of paced beats, separated by non-paced beats, using different selected pacing parameter values for different series of paced beats, and to control the transmitter for transmitting the programming instructions to the implanted cardiac pacing device; and a programmer memory coupled to the programmer processor, to store information related to the finger plethysmogram.