Patent ID: 8639323

Claim:
A system for monitoring the functional effect of an intervention effecting cardiac pacing, the system comprising: an implantable electronic pulse generator delivering artificial cardiac pacing; a means for halting the electronic pulse generator delivering artificial cardiac pacing at predetermined data collection intervals; a sensor for obtaining data on one or more intrinsic physiological parameters of cardiac pacing during the predetermined data collection intervals; and a computer readable medium programmed with instructions, the instructions comprising: instructions for recording and storing reference data for one or more intrinsic physiological parameters of cardiac pacing prior to the intervention effecting cardiac pacing; wherein the reference data recorded and stored for one or more intrinsic physiological parameters of cardiac pacing prior to the intervention effecting cardiac pacing comprises a response to artificial cardiac pacing at the intervention site; wherein the intervention effecting cardiac pacing comprises gene therapy, cell therapy, ablation, and/or drug delivery; instructions for halting the electronic pulse generator delivering artificial cardiac pacing at predetermined data collection intervals after the intervention effecting cardiac pacing; and instructions for obtaining data on one or more intrinsic physiological parameters of cardiac pacing during the predetermined data collection interval.