Patent ID: 8260412

Claim:
A method comprising: delivering therapy to a tissue site within a patient according to a first therapy program; detecting a potential arrhythmia of a heart of the patient; upon detecting the potential arrhythmia, adjusting the delivery of therapy to the tissue site within the patient according to the first therapy program; determining whether the potential arrhythmia is detected after adjusting the delivery of therapy according to the first therapy program; switching therapy delivery to the tissue site from therapy according to the first therapy program to therapy according to a second therapy program if the potential arrhythmia is not detected after adjusting the delivery of therapy according to the first therapy program, wherein the first and second therapy programs define at least one different stimulation parameter value; and prohibiting further delivery of therapy according to the first therapy program based upon a number of times therapy delivery to the tissue site is switched from therapy according to the first therapy program to therapy according to the second therapy program.