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Standardized Informal Exercise Testing for Programming Rate Adaptive Pacemakers
Author(s) -
HAYES DAVID L.,
FELDT LINDA,
HIGANO STUART T.
Publication year - 1991
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.1540-8159.1991.tb02764.x
Subject(s) - metronome , medicine , casual , heart rate , treadmill , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , rhythm , materials science , blood pressure , composite material
t is essential that patients with pacemakers capable of rate modulation undergo some form of exercise testing to assure appropriate rate modulation, Informal exercise testing is a reasonable and Jess expensive alternative to formal treadmill testing. Empiric adjustment of the rate response parameters by assessing the patient's rate response while walking at a self‐determined casual and brisk pace has been used. However, no normals exist to determine the appropriate rate response for a “casual” and “brisk” walk. Volunteers were tested with metronome‐guided casual and brisk walks in an effort to standardize the informal exercise and determine expected heart rate response for these levels of activity, Results of the metronome‐guided rate response in normal volunteers may be useful in determining the appropriate rate response for pacemaker patients when tested in such an informal manner.