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The NASPE */BPEG ** Generic Pacemaker Code for Antibradyarrhythmia and Adaptive‐Rate Pacing and Antitachyarrhythmia Devices
Author(s) -
BERNSTEIN ALAN D.,
CAMM A. JOHN,
FLETCHER ROSS D.,
GOLD ROBERT D.,
RICKARDS ANTHONY F.,
SMYTH NICHOLAS P.D.,
SPIELMAN SCOTT R.,
SUTTON RICHARD
Publication year - 1987
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.1540-8159.1987.tb06035.x
Subject(s) - medicine , code (set theory) , electrophysiology , cardiology , computer science , programming language , set (abstract data type)
A new generic pacemaker code, derived from and compatible with the Revised ICHD Code, was proposed jointly by the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE) Mode Code Committee and the British Pacing and Electrophysiology Croup (BPEC), and has been adopted by the NASPE Board of Trustees. It is abbreviated as the NBC (for “NASPE/BPEC Generic”) Code, and was developed to permit extension of the generic‐code concept to pacemakers whose escape rate is continuously controlled by monitoring some physiologic variable, rather than determined by fixed escape intervals measured from stimuli or sensed depolarizations, and to antitachyarrhythmia devices including cardioverters and defibrillators. The NASPE/BPEC Code incorporates an “R” in the fourth position to signify rate modulation (adaptive‐rate pacing), and one of four letters in the fifth position to indicate the presence of antitachyarrhythmia‐pacing capability or of cardioversion or defibrillation functions.