Atrial defibrillator with means for delivering therapy in response to a determination that the patient is likely asleep

摘要: An automatic atrial defibrillator which includes a mechanism for sensing the occurrence of fibrillation in patient's heart and response thereto delivers an defibrillation pulse. The device also has ability to determine whether patient is likely be asleep. Defibrillation pulses are at energy levels would normally painful delivered only occurrences while determined lower, non-painful may not