abstract |
A medical device for monitoring delivery of a therapy that includes a therapy delivery module to deliver a therapy, a controller to set a therapy delivery control parameter, an optical sensor to produce a signal corresponding to tissue light attenuation, and a processor configured to compute a tissue oxygenation measurement from the optical sensor signal, wherein the controller, the optical sensor, and the processor operate cooperatively to determine a setting of the therapy delivery control parameter corresponding to a maximum tissue oxygenation. |