Patent ID: 8185195

Claim:
A method for delivering cardiac therapy to a patient, comprising: associating one or more cardiac therapies respectively with one or more of a plurality of types of cardiac arrhythmia; detecting cardiac beats of an arrhythmic episode; comparing a morphology of each cardiac beat to a plurality of representative beat morphologies respectively associated with the plurality of types of cardiac arrhythmia; classifying the arrhythmic episode as a particular type of cardiac arrhythmia if the morphologies of the cardiac beats are consistent with a representative beat morphology of the particular type of cardiac arrhythmia; and delivering one or more particular therapies associated with the particular type of cardiac arrhythmia if the arrhythmic episode is classified as the particular type of cardiac arrhythmia; wherein delivering the one or more particular therapies comprises delivering the one or more particular therapies in a selected order; and wherein delivering the one or more particular therapies in the selected order comprises delivering the one or more particular therapies based on a history of effectiveness of the one or more particular therapies.