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Follow‐Up of a Minute Ventilation Rate Adaptive Pacemaker
Author(s) -
LI HUI,
NEUBAUER SHARON A.,
HAYES DAVID L.
Publication year - 1992
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.1540-8159.1992.tb02976.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ventilation (architecture) , cardiology , intensive care medicine , mechanical engineering , engineering
Although rate adaptive pacemakers are now frequently prescribed, there is limited information regarding long‐term follow‐up of patients with a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation. We have examined our patients in whom a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation via a sensor that determines minute ventilation has been implanted. After following a group of 42 patients for a mean of 13.2 months we have found this to be a reliable rate adaptive pacing system. The sensor was reliable long term, the system is easy to program, and sensor settings were changed infrequently.