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Gas Pocket Causing Pacemaker Malfunction
Author(s) -
LASALA ANTHONY F.,
FIELDMAN ARNOLD,
DIANA DANIEL J.,
HUMPHREY CHESTER B.
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.tb05198.x
Subject(s) - medicine , artificial cardiac pacemaker , cardiology
Pacemaker niulfunction was attributed to the increase in impedance to current flow caused by a pocket of air separating the anodal contact pate of a unipolar generator from the overlying skin. Lack of capture was noted 20 hours after implantation. The malfunction was permanently corrected by bedside aspiration of the gas with a sterile syringe.