SYNCHRONIZATION OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION THERAPY TO TREAT CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS

摘要

Systems are described for analyzing a plurality of beats after detection of a suspected cardiac arrhythmia to determine a beat discriminator, identify a beat subsequent to completion of charging of an implantable medical device by applying the beat discriminator, and synchronize delivery of a shock from the medical device to the identified beat. In some examples, identifying the beat using the beat discriminator may help to accurately synchronize the shock with a beat representative of physiological cardiac events instead of an oversensed beat, e.g., a noise sensed signal that is misclassified as a cardiac beat.