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Air Entrapment as a Cause of Transient Cardiac Pacemaker Malfunction
Author(s) -
KREIS DAVID J.,
LICALZI LUKE,
SHAW RICHARD K.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1979.tb04284.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transient (computer programming) , cardiac pacemaker , entrapment , cardiac pacing , cardiology , artifact (error) , complication , stimulation , surgery , neuroscience , computer science , biology , operating system
Air within a pacemaker pocket may cause transient malfunction of a replacement unipolar cardiac pacemaker. This was noted in a patient in whom entrapped air prevented tissue contact of the anode, resulting in complete cessation of myocardlal stimulation and absence of an electrocardio‐graphic pacemaker artifact, Methods for avoiding this complication are proposed.