Combined defibrillation and pacing electrode

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PATENT NO 5330526
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07877838

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An electrode for transcutaneously delivering defibrillation pulses to a patient's heart. The electrode comprises an insulating substrate, a conducting plate which is positioned on the substrate and which has an electrical terminal for making a connection to an external source of electrical current, and a layer of electrolytic gel covering the entire top surface of the conducting plate. This gel contacts a patient's skin when the electrode is positioned on the skin to prevent the conducting plate from contacting the skin. The gel comprises a concentration of an electrolyte such that the combination series resistance of two of the electrodes, when measured with the electrodes configured in a series circuit with a 50 .OMEGA. resistance, and with the electrolytic gel layer of each electrode in contact with that of the other electrode, is greater than 1 .OMEGA. when a 200 Joule defibrillation pulse is discharged into the series circuit.

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ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION269 MILL ROAD CHELMSFORD MA 01824

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fincke, Randall W Winchester, MA 17 3829
Stutz, Rolf S Cambridge, MA 1 87

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