Patent ID: 8682450

Claim:
A method for use with an implantable medical system for implant within a patient where the implantable medical system is equipped for neurostimulation, the system comprising: detecting, with the implantable medical system, a parameter representative of one of more of: heart failure; arrhythmia; atrial tachycardia/atrial fibrillation (AT/AF) burden; hypertension; Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) sleep apnea; cardiac ischemia; and angina; and in response to the detected parameter, delivering neurostimulation, via the implantable medical system, to one or more acupuncture sites within anterior regions of one or more of the neck, thorax and abdomen of the patient; wherein if the detected parameter includes parameters representative of hypertension, the acupuncture sites for delivery of the neurostimulation includes one or more of acupuncture sites P1 and P2; and further wherein if the detected parameter includes parameters representative of at least one of CSR and sleep apnea, the acupunctures sites for delivery of the neurostimulation includes one or more of acupuncture sites L1 and L2.