(19)
(11) EP 3 219 356 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 A1)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
15.11.2017 Bulletin 2017/46

(43) Date of publication:
20.09.2017 Bulletin 2017/38

(21) Application number: 16160234.7

(22) Date of filing: 14.03.2016
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
A61N 1/05(2006.01)
A61B 5/0402(2006.01)
A61B 5/0464(2006.01)
 A61N 1/365(2006.01)
A61B 5/04(2006.01)
A61N 1/362(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME
Designated Validation States:
MA MD

(71) Applicant: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
80539 München (DE)

(72) Inventors:
  • Schlemmer, Alexander
    37085 Göttingen (DE)
  • Lilienkamp, Thomas
    37083 Göttingen (DE)
  • Berg, Sebastian
    37075 Göttingen (DE)
  • Parlitz, Ulrich
    37130 Gleichen (DE)
  • Luther, Stefan
    37077 Göttingen (DE)

(74) Representative: REHBERG HÜPPE + PARTNER 
Patentanwälte PartG mbB Robert-Gernhardt-Platz 1
37073 Göttingen
37073 Göttingen (DE)

   


(54) APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ELECTRIC PULSES TO LIVING MYOCARDIAL TISSUE


(57) An apparatus for applying at least one electric pulse to a living myocardial tissue comprises an input receiving an electric signal representing a present electric activity of the myocardial tissue; a signal processor (11) processing the electric signal to determine a measure of the present complexity of the electric signal in the state space and to output a control signal (13) when the complexity measure is lower than a predetermined complexity threshold value; a pulse generator configured to generate the at least one electric pulse in response to the control signal; and an output configured to output the at least one electric pulse to the myocardial tissue.