Talos
Talos
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Talos Bradycardia Therapy
Improvements in the treatment of cardiovascular disease has resulted in:
⇒ Longer patient life expectancies
⇒ Greater numbers of patient F/U
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Talos Bradycardia Therapy
What would be the most optimal scenario to assist physicians?
⇒ Longer device service times to reduce patient procedures
⇒ Uncomplicated programming to reduce F/U times
⇒ Diagnostics which allow fast, accurate decisions
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What do patients want?
⇒ Less painful procedures to undergo & clinic interventions
⇒ Uncomplicated therapy that works
⇒ Comfort & piece of mind
⇒ Fast, accurate diagnoses in the event of unexpected events
Superior Quality of Life
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What is Talos offering:
Talos offers comprehensive therapy through:
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Talos therapy:
Extended Therapy: Superior Longevity
Talos with Active Capture Control and beat-to-beat capture confirmation.
Includes Wideband
IEGM storage
15% more therapy
than competitive
devices
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Talos therapy:
Extended Therapy: Superior Longevity
Talos with Active Capture Control (ACC) and beat-to-beat
capture confirmation:
• Effective back-up-pulse
• Simple “one-button” activation
• Efficient fusion discrimination algorithm
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3 Components of ACC Algorithm:
Successful
Active Capture Control: How does it work?
Amplitude
Adjust-
ment
Capture Control
Threshold Testing
Signal-
analysis
Successful
With everyPeriodically Periodically beat
Threshold search
Active Capture Control
- works effectively with low polarisation leads
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Active Capture Control
Extended Therapy: Exceptional Functionality
– Secure back-up pulse
– Automatic adjustment of outputs
– Fusion discrimination reduces unnecessary pacing
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Talos: Active Capture Control
- Easy activation with “one-button” selection
- Ability to customise test settingsSimple
on/off selection
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ACC: Efficient & easy to use
Intelligent functionality delivers superiority
– Detailed status and threshold information
– Simple programming
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Setrox S & Active Capture Control
Unique combination of fractal coating and steroid elution
provides a strong foundation for superior longevity:
• Small geometric and large electrically active surface
• Ideal signal-to-noise-ratio
• Low acute and chronic thresholds
• Optimal electrical environment offers best interaction for ACC
• Ensures superior longevity is achieved
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Talos: Security & Reliability
Ventricular paceNon-capture @ 0.4ms
Back-up pulse @ 1.0msCapture Confirmed
Detection ofevoked response
60 msVentricular
Blanking20 ms
Calculation, Programming50 ms
131 ms
• ACC incorporates the most energy efficient back-up pulse
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Talos: Security & Reliability
How effective is the back-up pulse?
A 2002 multicenter PACC study demonstrated the 100% reliability of ACC and the backup pulse.1)
1) Philos DR Active Capture Control (PACC) IDE #G010286 Clinical Report, Tab. 18, Dec. 2002.
100% 100% CaptureCapture
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Talos: Efficient patient management
Easy activation, complete security with “one-button” features
• Effective Features
• Simple, user-friendly
• Efficient therapy
• Safe and reliable
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Talos: Efficient patient management
“One-button” activation of IRSPlus to reduce unnecessary pacing
– Simple on/off programming
– Optimisation of therapy
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Talos: Intelligent diagnostics
Event Trigger criteria for episode storage:
• High atrial rate
or alternatively:
• Mode Switching, Mode Conversion
Storage of important clinical patient events allows you to make
prompt, accurate decisions:
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Talos: Intelligent diagnostics
Accurate decisions
• Wideband resolution
• 40 seconds capacity
• Pre/post trigger data
• Intelligent memory management
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• Earliest episode
• Episode with highest ventricular rate
• Longest episode
• Most recent episode
Intelligent Memory Management
Talos: Intelligent diagnostics
• Events are recorded according to a hierarchy rather than simply
“first-in, first-out”:
• Prevents important information being “inappropriately deleted”
When Talos storage capacity is reached the following patient episodes
receive priority and are NOT overwritten:
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Talos: Extended Therapy
Intelligent diagnostics: Accurate decisions
• Intelligent storage
• Simple, effective
• Therapy optimisation
Detailed information allows physician to optimise patient care
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Talos: Reliability & security
Patients are increasingly educated about clinical and
technical issues affecting their health
• Talos offers features which guarantee your patients
piece-of-mind:
– Responding to changes when needed
– Providing extended service times
– Offering protection against unexpected events
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Talos: Reliability & security
Talos maintains 100% capture output, responding to system and
clinical changes providing safe, reliable therapy:
Active Capture Control
Energy efficient back-up-pulse
Automatic Lead Check
Auto-Initialisation
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Talos Overview
At a glance...
• ACC
• Automatic Threshold Test
• Auto-Initialisation
• IRS Plus
• Wideband IEGM
• Intelligent memory management
• Automatic Lead Check
• PMT Protection
and much more...
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Talos: Comprehensive Therapy
“…Talos because some things were meant to last forever”