Implantable Electrostimulation Assembly and Adapter and Electrode Lead of the Same

• US 20140155951A1
• Filed: 11/11/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Biotronik SE & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Biotronik SE & Company KG
• Inventors: Doerr, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 9,427,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/05 for implantation or insertion into the body, e.g. heart electrode A61N1/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37211 Means for communicating with stimulators

Abstract

An implantable electrostimulation assembly, including an electrostimulation device and an electrode lead that is connected to the electrostimulation device when in use, wherein the electrode lead has an optically readable electrode identification and a cable adapter is provided for the temporary insertion between the electrostimulation device and the electrode lead, the adapter comprising optical read means for reading the electrode identification and transmission means for transmitting the same to the electrostimulation device and/or to an assembly-external receiver.

Claims

1. An implantable electrostimulation assembly, comprising:

an electrostimulation device; and

an electrode lead that is connected to the electrostimulation device when in use,

wherein the electrode lead has a readable electrode identification and a cable adapter is provided for the temporary insertion between the electrostimulation device and the electrode lead, the cable adapter comprising read means for reading the electrode identification and transmission means for transmitting the electrode identification to the electrostimulation device and/or to an assembly-external receiver.

2. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the cable adapter is arranged together with the electrostimulation device in a common sterile packaging for shipment.

3. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the cable adapter is arranged together with the electrode lead in a common sterile packaging for shipment.

4. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the readable electrode identification is read mechanically, optically, electrically, electromagnetically, and/or by means of radio frequency, and the read means of the cable adapter have mechanical, optical, electrical and/or electromagnetical pick-up means, and/or pick-up means of radio frequency.

5. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 4, wherein the readable electrode identification is read out optically in a contactless manner and/or electrically in a galvanic or contactless manner by the read means of the cable adapter.

6. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 4, wherein the readable electrode identification comprises a bar code or a letter/numeral combination and the read means of the cable adapter comprise a bar code scanner or a text scanner.

7. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 6, wherein the optically readable electrode identification is provided on a connector of the electrode lead.

8. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transmission means of the cable adapter comprise a radio interface for telemetrically transmitting the electrode identification data to the electrostimulation device or for wirelessly transmitting the electrode identification data to a corresponding radio interface of a treatment center.

9. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the cable adapter comprises an electrode identification converter for the code conversion of the read electrode identification according to terminal specifications of the electrostimulation device and for transferring the re-coded electrode identification to the transmission means for transmission to the electrostimulation device.

10. The electrostimulation assembly according to claim 9, wherein the transmission means for transmitting the electrode identification to the assembly-external receiver are designed to send both the read electrode identification and the re-coded electrode identification data.

11. An electrode lead of an implantable electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, comprising a readable electrode identification.

12. The electrode lead according to claim 11, wherein the readable electrode identification is accommodated in or on a connector.

13. The electrode lead according to claim 11, wherein the readable electrode identification is read mechanically, optically, electrically, electromagnetically and/or by means of radio frequency, preferably it can be read optically in a contactless manner and/or electrically in a galvanic or contactless manner, still more preferably as a bar code or letter/numeral combination.

14. A cable adapter of an implantable electrostimulation assembly according to claim 1, comprising read means for reading the electrode identification and transmission means for transmitting the electrode identification to the electrostimulation device and/or to an assembly-external receiver.

15. The cable adapter according to claim 14, which is individually packaged for shipment and more particularly designed so as to be re-sterilizable.

16. The electrode lead according to claim 13, wherein the readable electrode identification is read optically in a contactless manner and/or electrically in a galvanic or contactless manner.

17. The electrode lead according to claim 16, wherein the readable electrode identification comprises a bar code or letter/numeral combination.