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US 12,465,778 · App. 17/942,041 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Multimodal device and method to increase the efficacy of transthoracic cardioversion or cardiac pacing in patients with perfusing rhythms

Inventor: Norman Alan Paradis (Putney, VT)
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Patent No.
US 12,465,778
App. No.
17/942,041
Granted
Nov 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention disclosed here relates in general to the field of medical devices. In particular, to devices and methods for improving the clinical outcome of patients suffering from cardiac dysrhythmias without cardiac arrest. This method and/or device integrates mechanical, pneumatic, acoustic and/or electrophysiologic capabilities with electrical countershock or pacing capabilities such that the probability of successful cardioversion or pacing is increased. The sequence, forces, and electrical properties of the subsystems can be computer controlled and adjusted in response to biomarker inputs.

Claims (32)

1 . A Cardiac Electrical Therapy Efficacy Enhancement System (CETEES) to improve the efficacy of acute electrical therapies for patients suffering cardiac dysrhythmias with retained hemodynamics, the CETEES comprising:

a Transthoracic Cardioverter Pacer (TCP);

an electrode contact force enhancers adapted to press on a TCP electrode;

a controller that synchronizes the TCP and the electrode contact force enhancer so that the TCP administers an electrical discharge in synchrony with the application of force to the TCP electrode by the electrode contact force enhancer; and

an inelastic outer shell adapted to contain and maintain the location of the electrode contact force enhancers and provide a Newtonian counterforce that allows the electrode contact force enhancer to apply inward force towards the center of the CETEES.

2 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising a ventilator, wherein the controller synchronizes the ventilator with the TCP, so that the TCP delivers a shock when the ventilator is within twenty percent of its minimum exhalation volume.

3 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising an exhalation band adapted to squeeze air out of a pulmonary system of a patient, wherein the controller synchronizes the exhalation band with the TCP so that the TCP delivers a shock when the exhalation band is within twenty percent of maximal exhalation.

4 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising a transcutaneous vibratory energy emitter, wherein the controller synchronizes the vibratory energy emitter with the TCP.

5 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising a transthoracic vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter adapted to stimulate a vagus nerve of a patient with electromagnetic energy, wherein the controller synchronizes the vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter with the TCP.

6 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising a transcutaneous abdominal muscle electrical stimulator adapted to stimulate an abdominus rectus muscle to trigger exhalation, wherein the controller synchronizes the abdominal muscle electrical stimulator with the TCP.

7 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising at least one biomarker sensor, wherein a force of compression applied by the electrode contact force enhancer is dependent on data from the at least one biomarker sensor.

8 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising at least one impedance sensor adapted to collect impedance data from the patient, wherein a force of compression applied by the electrode contact force enhancer is dependent on data from the at least one impedance sensor, wherein the controller increases the force of compression to reduce impedance until a plateau develops in the data collected from the impedance sensor, and then the controller reduces the force of compression to a level of force that was applied at the onset of the plateau in the impedance data, and the controller synchronizes the contact force enhancer and the TCP so that the TCP delivers a shock when the contract force enhancer is applying the level of force that was applied at the onset of the plateau in the impedance data.

9 . The CETEES of claim 1 further comprising at least two pairs of TCP electrodes, and wherein the controller controls the TCP to provide shocks through multiple sequential current paths across the chest.

10 . A Cardiac Electrical Therapy Efficacy Enhancement System (CETEES) to improve the efficacy of acute electrical therapies for patients suffering cardiac dysrhythmias with retained hemodynamics, the CETEES comprising:

a Transthoracic Cardioverter Pacer (TCP);

an electrode contact force enhancers adapted to press on a TCP electrode;

a controller that synchronizes the TCP and the electrode contact force enhancer so that the TCP administers an electrical discharge in synchrony with the application of force to the TCP electrode by the electrode contact force enhancer; and

a transcutaneous vibratory energy emitter, wherein the controller synchronizes the vibratory energy emitter with the TCP.

11 . The CETEES of claim 10 , further comprising an inelastic outer shell adapted to contain and maintain the location of the electrode contact force enhancers and provide a Newtonian counterforce that allows the electrode contact force enhancer to apply inward force towards the center of the CETEES.

12 . The CETEES of claim 10 , further comprising a ventilator, wherein the controller synchronizes the ventilator with the TCP, so that the TCP delivers a shock when the ventilator is within twenty percent of its minimum exhalation volume.

13 . The CETEES of claim 10 , further comprising an exhalation band adapted to squeeze air out of a pulmonary system of a patient, wherein the controller synchronizes the exhalation band with the TCP so that the TCP delivers a shock when the exhalation band is within twenty percent of maximal exhalation.

14 . The CETEES of claim 10 , further comprising a transthoracic vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter adapted to stimulate a vagus nerve of a patient with electromagnetic energy, wherein the controller synchronizes the vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter with the TCP.

15 . The CETEES of claim 10 , further comprising a transcutaneous abdominal muscle electrical stimulator adapted to stimulate an abdominus rectus muscle to trigger exhalation, wherein the controller synchronizes the abdominal muscle electrical stimulator with the TCP.

16 . A Cardiac Electrical Therapy Efficacy Enhancement System (CETEES) to improve the efficacy of acute electrical therapies for patients suffering cardiac dysrhythmias with retained hemodynamics, the CETEES comprising:

a Transthoracic Cardioverter Pacer (TCP);

an electrode contact force enhancers adapted to press on a TCP electrode;

a controller that synchronizes the TCP and the electrode contact force enhancer so that the TCP administers an electrical discharge in synchrony with the application of force to the TCP electrode by the electrode contact force enhancer; and

a transthoracic vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter adapted to stimulate a vagus nerve of a patient with electromagnetic energy, wherein the controller synchronizes the vagus nerve electromagnetic energy emitter with the TCP.

17 . The CETEES of claim 16 , further comprising an inelastic outer shell adapted to contain and maintain the location of the electrode contact force enhancers and provide a Newtonian counterforce that allows the electrode contact force enhancer to apply inward force towards the center of the CETEES.

18 . The CETEES of claim 16 , further comprising a ventilator, wherein the controller synchronizes the ventilator with the TCP, so that the TCP delivers a shock when the ventilator is within twenty percent of its minimum exhalation volume.

19 . The CETEES of claim 16 , further comprising an exhalation band adapted to squeeze air out of a pulmonary system of a patient, wherein the controller synchronizes the exhalation band with the TCP so that the TCP delivers a shock when the exhalation band is within twenty percent of maximal exhalation.

20 . The CETEES of claim 16 , further comprising a transcutaneous vibratory energy emitter, wherein the controller synchronizes the vibratory energy emitter with the TCP.

Continuity (4)
Continuation In Part 17676612 · Feb 21, 2022
Continuation 16514968 · Jul 17, 2019
Provisional Application 62699647 · Jul 17, 2018
Related Publication 20230001220A1 · Jan 5, 2023
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