Heart treatment equipment and a heart treatment method directed to
prevention of a fatal arrhythmia by detecting a physical exercise or a
mental stress by using a sensor and thereafter controlling the vagus
nerve stimulation, wherein sensor means for detecting various living body
information for generating a signal which designates degree of a
sympathetic tone is provided and heart rate threshold for carrying out
the vagus nerve stimulation is adjusted according to the living body
information detected by the sensor means. Further, a nerve stimulation
parameter for adjusting the strength of the vagus nerve stimulation is
adjusted in response to the degree of the patient sympathetic tone.