Cardiac pacemaker

Abstract

Abstract From production to application of a cardiac pacemaker a large number of administrative and diagnostic data arise, and these must be available, for example, to the treating physician at many different times in order to permit assessment of the pacemaker functions and its effects on a patient. Data were hitherto collected using a number of different data carriers, such as patient record cards, test charts, forms and other documents. In order to reduce the work involved in the collection and at the same time to permit all data to be presented reliably and completely, a cardiac pacemaker (1) according to the invention is provided with a store (3) for data which have nothing directly to do with the function of the cardiac pacemaker, means (6) for contactless receipt and/or transfer of data from and to, respectively, an external apparatus (peripheral unit 10) and a control unit (4) for data transport. In this way the pacemaker (1) undertakes the administrative routines from production to application and also at least some of the diagnostic values itself. In an advantageous development, a measurement recording member (7) and a data preparation member (8) are provided in order to permit direct internal scanning of diagnostic data in particular. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Häkan Dr. Elmqvist

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