IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH VOICE RESPONDING AND RECORDING CAPACITY
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1. A method comprising:
- providing at least one of pacing therapy pulses, cardioversion shock pulses, or defibrillation shock pulses to a heart using an implantable medical device (IMD);
producing digitized samples of acoustic energy received within a patient'"'"'s body using the IMD, wherein the acoustic energy has sufficient bandwidth to allow recording of the patient'"'"'s intelligible speech;
extracting a voice command from the digitized samples;
recording, in response to the voice command, the digitized samples in a storage medium; and
transmitting the digitized samples to an external device.
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Abstract
An implantable medical device such as a cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with the capability of receiving communications in the form of speech spoken by the patient. An acoustic transducer is incorporated within the device which along with associated filtering circuitry enables the voice communication to be used to affect the operation of the device or recorded for later playback.
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1. A method comprising:
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providing at least one of pacing therapy pulses, cardioversion shock pulses, or defibrillation shock pulses to a heart using an implantable medical device (IMD); producing digitized samples of acoustic energy received within a patient'"'"'s body using the IMD, wherein the acoustic energy has sufficient bandwidth to allow recording of the patient'"'"'s intelligible speech; extracting a voice command from the digitized samples; recording, in response to the voice command, the digitized samples in a storage medium; and transmitting the digitized samples to an external device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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