System and method inducing fibrillation using an implantable defibrillator

摘要

A method and apparatus for inducing fibrillation generates a continuous fibrillation waveform from the internal battery source of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. The continuous fibrillation waveform has a voltage of at least 5 volts and not more than 50 volts and a duration of not less than 500 milliseconds and is applied though the at least two implantable electrodes so as to induce fibrillation in the heart of the human patient.