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Nerve stimulation methods for averting imminent onset or episode of a disease

  • US 10,220,207 B2
  • Filed: 10/19/2012
  • Issued: 03/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of averting an onset of an acute medical event in a patient, the method comprising:

  • sensing a signal by a sensor, wherein the signal is at least one of physiological or environmental, wherein the signal is at least one of within, on, or about the patient, wherein the signal comprises a value;

    forecasting the onset of the acute medical event based at least in part on the value;

    positioning a portion of a housing in contact with a skin surface of a neck of the patient, wherein the portion of the housing comprises a contact surface and the housing comprises an electrical impulse generator;

    generating an electrical impulse within the housing; and

    transmitting, based at least in part on the forecasting, the electrical impulse from the housing via the contact surface transcutaneously and non-invasively through the skin surface of the neck of the patient to a vagus nerve in the patient to treat the acute medical event.

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