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Defibrillator electrode

  • US 4,938,231 A
  • Filed: 11/21/1988
  • Issued: 07/03/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for use as an electrode for implantation in a patient and affixation to tissue therein having a three dimensional, time-varying surface topography, the apparatus comprising:

  • a tissue-contacting member including a sheet of electrically conductive, flexible material having a generally unflexed planar shape, and a plurality of elongated slits arranged in a pattern in said sheet, said slits allowing the sheet to conform to the tissue and to any movement thereof, a part of at least one interior portion of said sheet defined by said pattern being flexibly movable in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said sheet past sheet portions separated from said movable portion by said pattern of slits for continuously conforming said tissue-contacting member to the tissue during any movement of the tissue.

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