Patent ID: 7734345

Claim:
A method for providing treatment for a cardiac arrhythmia comprising: detecting an arrhythmia in a heart of a patient with at least one electrode, the at least one electrode not coupled to the heart of the patient; detecting a physiological condition of the patient; generating an alarm signal after said detection of the arrhythmia to alert a user of an impending cardiac treatment; canceling the cardiac treatment if an abort signal is provided by the user within a predetermined amount of time; delivering the cardiac treatment before the predetermined amount of time if the physiological condition of the patient exceeds a predetermined threshold; and delivering the cardiac treatment if an abort signal is not provided by the user within the predetermined amount of time, the treatment delivered via first and second delivering electrodes, wherein the first and second delivering electrodes are configured to be positioned on substantially opposing front and rear sides of the heart of a patient without any electrode being directly connected thereto.