Patent ID: 8078271
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for use with an implantable medical device for detecting one of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia within a patient in which the device is implanted, said method comprising: tracking with the implantable medical device, rates of change of ventricular repolarization amplitudes and at least one of atrial depolarization amplitudes and ventricular depolarization amplitudes and ventricular repolarization amplitudes; detecting with the implantable medical device, an onset of hyperglycemia upon detecting a rapid increase in at least one of the rate of change of atrial depolarization amplitudes and ventricular depolarization amplitudes; and detecting with the implantable medical device, an onset of hypoglycemia upon detecting a rapid increase in the rate of change of ventricular repolarization amplitudes.