Bionic cardiovascular medicine

Author

Sugimachi, Masaru ; Sunagawa, Kenji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Cardiovascular Dynamics, Nat. Cardiovascular Center Res. Inst., Osaka, Japan

Volume

24

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

31

Abstract

A novel, bionic therapeutic strategy to treat various incurable cardiovascular diseases was developed. The bionic therapeutic strategy comprises a collection of methods to treat various diseases by replacing the native regulatory function or by correcting the abnormal native function with intelligent electronic devices. This paper presents the study on decoding the heart rate from the sympathetic nervous system, encoding pressor information and delivering it via nervous stimulation sequence, and improving the survival of animals with chronic heart failure by the correction of the abnormal cardiovascular regulatory function.

Keywords

biocybernetics; biomedical equipment; blood pressure measurement; cardiovascular system; decoding; diseases; encoding; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; patient treatment; abnormal cardiovascular regulatory function; abnormal native function; animal survival; bionic cardiovascular medicine; bionic therapeutic strategy; chronic heart failure; decoding the heart rate; encoding pressor information; incurable cardiovascular diseases; intelligent electronic devices; native regulatory function; nervous stimulation sequence; sympathetic nervous system; Animals; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Decoding; Encoding; Heart rate; Medical treatment; Pacemakers; Sympathetic nervous system; Biomimetics; Bionics; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Equipment Design; Hemostasis; Humans; Therapy, Computer-Assisted;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0739-5175

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MEMB.2005.1463392

Filename

1463392