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Muscle fitness detection by colorimetry

  • US 5,067,960 A
  • Filed: 12/06/1989
  • Issued: 11/26/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A cardiac assist system for assisting a natural human heart having ventricles which contract at a ventricular rate comprising:

  • a. a surgically prepared skeletal muscle adapted to be responsively coupled to the circulatory system;

    b. control means adapted to be coupled to said natural human heart and coupled to said surgically prepared skeletal muscle for stimulating said surgically prepared skeletal muscle to contract in synchrony with said ventricles of said natural human heart; and

    c. means responsively coupled to said surgically prepared skeletal muscle for monitoring a parameter indicative of changes in the oxygen level in said surgically prepared skeletal muscle.

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