Patent Document ID: 9962548
Application ID: 14958413
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for treating a patient using a neural stimulation system that includes a reference event detection circuit and an output circuit, comprising: identifying a preferred phase of the patient's cardiac cycle for activating a baroreflex system, wherein identifying a preferred phase of the patient's cardiac cycle comprises: stimulating the baroreflex system of the patient during a systolic phase and a diastolic phase of the patient's cardiac cycle; quantifying responses to stimulating the baroreflex system; and monitoring the responses to stimulating during the systolic phase and the diastolic phase; detecting a contraction in a heart of the patient using the reference event detection circuit; and activating the baroreflex system of the patient, using the output circuit, after expiration of a pre-selected period of time after the detected contraction in the heart; including activating the baroreflex system of the patient during the preferred phase of the patient's cardiac cycle.