Patent ID: 8060206

Claim:
A baroreflex stimulator, including: a pulse generator to provide a baroreflex stimulation signal through an electrode for a baroreflex therapy; a blood pressure sensor to provide a sensed blood pressure signal; a memory to store a predetermined blood pressure threshold value, a time period beginning with an episode for sensed blood pressure to reach the predetermined blood pressure threshold, and a programmed algorithm for increasing a level of the baroreflex therapy as a function of the sensed blood pressure signal, the predetermined blood pressure threshold, and the time period; and a modulator operatively connected to the pulse generator, the blood pressure sensor and the memory to implement the programmed algorithm in the memory to modulate the baroreflex stimulation signal to increase the level of the baroreflex therapy through at least two levels to achieve a gradual transition of the therapy to lower sensed blood pressure to the predetermined blood pressure threshold by the end of the time period.