Patent ID: 7486991

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 target blood pressure, a time duration that defines a time period beginning with an event trigger for sensed blood pressure to reach the target blood pressure, and a programmed algorithm for determining a rate of change for progressively increasing a level of the baroreflex therapy using the sensed blood pressure signal, the target blood pressure, and the time duration, wherein the programmed algorithm is adapted to determine the rate of change to progressively decrease sensed blood pressure to the target blood pressure by an end of 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 progressively increase the level of the baroreflex stimulation therapy by the rate of change determined by the algorithm to progressively lower sensed blood pressure to the target pressure by the end of the time period.