Patent Document ID: 20150196762
Application ID: 14154962
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for managing hypertension of a patient through vagus nerve stimulation and renal denervation, comprising the steps of: disrupting renal nerves to inhibit a sympathetic nervous system; providing an implantable neurostimulator comprising a pulse generator configured to deliver electrical therapeutic stimulation in a manner that results in creation and propagation in both afferent and efferent directions of action potentials within neuronal fibers comprising the cervical vagus nerve; storing operating modes of the pulse generator in a recordable memory, comprising parametrically defining a maintenance dose of the electrical therapeutic stimulation tuned to restore cardiac autonomic balance through continuously-cycling, intermittent and periodic electrical pulses; and therapeutically delivering the maintenance dose to the vagus nerve independent of cardiac cycle via the pulse generator comprised in the implantable neurostimulator through at least a pair of electrodes electrically coupled to the pulse generator via a nerve stimulation therapy lead.