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Appraisal of Pacing Lead Performance Using Transtelephonic Follow‐Up Data
Author(s) -
KIM JOHN S.,
SUGALSKI JOHN S.
Publication year - 1990
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.1540-8159.1990.tb06917.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lead (geology) , silicone , polyurethane , data collection , service (business) , reliability engineering , statistics , composite material , materials science , mathematics , geomorphology , engineering , economics , geology , economy
KIM, J.S., ET AL.: Appraisal of Pacing Lead Performance Using Transtelephonic Follow‐Up Data. Reliable performance statistics for implantable pacing leads are not readily available because of difficulties involved in data collection. An alternate source of data exists in the form of commercial monitoring service data. The example considered here involves transtelephonic follow‐up data collected by CardioCare, a cardiac monitoring service. This presentation describes a procedure used to identify complications arising from pacing leads, and also presents a method for proper analysis of the data. Analyses comparing silicone leads and polyurethane leads were performed on leads manufactured by five major manufacturers in the United States. The results indicate that the performance of polyurethane unipolar leads is similar to that of the silicone unipolar leads. However, the polyurethane bipolar leads did not perform as well as the silicone bipolar leads.