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Method for decreasing mortality of hemodialysis patients

  • US 20050043639A1
  • Filed: 08/22/2003
  • Published: 02/24/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for providing an alarm signal to alert a dialysis patient that he or she is having a heart attack, the method including the following steps:

  • a) determining if the patient is a dialysis patient who has been connected to a system that performs dialysis;

    b) implanting into the patient a system for early warning of a heart attack by means of noting an ST segment shift in that patient'"'"'s electrogram;

    c) sounding an alarm from within the implanted system to warn the patient that he or she is having a heart attack.

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