Patent ID: 8855766

Claim:
A method for delivering shocks to a heart, the method comprising: displaying a plurality of predetermined arrhythmia zones, a plurality of rate thresholds, and a plurality of detection buttons, the predetermined arrhythmia zones each identified by a rate threshold of the plurality of rate thresholds, the detection buttons each associated with an arrhythmia zone of the displayed plurality of predetermined arrhythmia zones to allow for access to detection parameters for the associated arrhythmia zone; receiving selection of a detection button from the displayed plurality of detection buttons; displaying one or more predetermined clinical rhythms for which rhythm discrimination is available for the arrhythmia zone associated with the selected detection button to allow for selection of a clinical rhythm from the displayed one or more predetermined clinical rhythms; receiving the selection of the clinical rhythm; identifying one or more detection enhancements associated with the selection of the clinical rhythm from a plurality of predetermined detection enhancements each being a set of rules for determining when to deliver one or more of the shocks; and setting detection enhancement parameters associated with the identified one or more detection enhancements; and programming the detection enhancement parameters into a device to perform the identified one or more detection enhancements.