User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Important therapy information
- 3 Introduction to stimulation
- 4 Using your patient programmer
- How the patient programmer works
- Synchronizing and displaying the Therapy screen
- Guidelines for adjusting your stimulation
- Turning your neurostimulator ON or OFF
- Adjusting stimulation settings
- Patient programmer batteries
- Summary of keys
- Preferences: Changing the audio, contrast, and number format
- Using the carrying case and labeling the patient programmer
- Optional detachable antenna
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Maintenance
- 7 Appendix A: Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
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neurostimulator. To verify that inadvertent
programming did not occur, clinicians
familiar with each device should check the
programmed settings before you are sent
home from the hospital and after either
device is programmed (or as soon as
possible after these times).
Contact your doctor immediately if you notice
symptoms that could be related to either
device or to the medical condition treated by
that device.
Component compatibility – For proper
therapy, only components that are
compatible with the appropriate indication
(eg, spinal cord stimulation) should be used.
For a list of Medtronic-compatible
components, ask your doctor. No claims of
safety or efficacy are made about the
compatibility of non-Medtronic components
with Medtronic components.
Patient control devices – Do not place
patient control devices (eg, patient
programmer) over another device (eg,