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Temporary AVI Pacing by Chest Wall Stimulation
Author(s) -
KERSSCHOT IVO E.,
GOETHALS MARC A.,
VANAGT EDDY J.,
VRINTS CHRIS J.,
SNOECK JOZEF P.
Publication year - 1985
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.1540-8159.1985.tb05715.x
Subject(s) - medicine , stimulation , ventricular pacing , cardiology , subthreshold conduction , cardiac pacing , anesthesia , heart failure , electrical engineering , voltage , transistor , engineering
Temporary atrial pacing (coded AVI pacing) has recently been proposed to assess atrial capture in patients with unipolar dual chamber pacemakers. 1–3 This pacing mode can usually be achieved by programming the ventricular output to a subthreshold value. In patients with noncomitted bifocal pacemakers, AVI pacing can also be obtained by prolonging the programmed AV delay allowing for spontaneous conduction after atrial capture. However, in patients with prolonged AV conduction and a low aventricular stimuialion threshold, ventricular stimulation cannot be prevented using the forementioned procedures. Using chest wall stimulation, we developed and tested a new method of temporary AVI pacing in patients with noncommitted DDD or DVI pacemakers.

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