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  <dc:title>Pharmacological Atrial Defibrillator and Method</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Arzbaecher, Robert C.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Bump, Thomas E.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Yurkonis, Charles E.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Bloem, David R.</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>A method and an implantable apparatus for automatically delivering a defibrillating drug to a patient upon detection of the onset of atrial fibrillation. Atrial activity of a heart is detected and monitored. A delivery time is continuously computed and a delivery signal is emitted as a function of the monitored level of the atrial activity. When the delivery signal is emitted, an infusion pump discharges a defibrillating drug into the bloodstream of the patient. The atrial activity is also continuously monitored for computing a pacing time at which a pacing signal is emitted as a second function of the monitored level of atrial activity. When the pacing signal is emitted a pacer paces the atrium of the heart.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:description>
  <dc:description>United States Patent</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2009-05-11</dc:date>
  <dc:date>1996-06-18</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Patent</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:9756</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>5,527,344</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2413</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>No Copyright - United States</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
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