US Patent 7164944 Analgesic therapy for ICD patients

An exemplary method includes delivering a therapy selected from tiered therapies that include cardioversion and/or defibrillation therapies wherein the delivered therapy aims to treat a cardiac condition, delivering analgesic stimulation, determining whether the delivered therapy successfully treated the cardiac condition, and responsive to the determining, changing one or more analgesic stimulation parameters. Various other exemplary methods and/or devices capable of performing such methods are also disclosed.