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A Registry for Implantable Antitachycardia Devices
Author(s) -
FURMAN SEYMOUR
Publication year - 1984
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.1540-8159.1984.tb04956.x
Subject(s) - medicine , defibrillation , tachycardia , cardiology , bradycardia , cardiac pacing , ventricular tachycardia , heart rate , blood pressure
Antitachycardia electrical stimulation involves significant problems of sensing the cardiac rhythm and determining whether a tachycardia exists. The simple algorithms developed for bradycardia pacing are inadequate for tachycardia pacing. Electrogram signal analysis and cardiac activation analysis with at least two leads will be required to make a device diagnosis of a tachycardia. Termination of a tachycardia reliably and consistently is difficult and has been accomplished reliably only by defibrillation. Further development of devices which are multimodal in termination capability is necessary. A registry for tachycardias and for tachycardia management is required to provide concentrated and analyzable data from a modality as yet infrequently used.