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Loss of “Pacemaker's Identity” Following Activation of the Emergency VVI Feature
Author(s) -
SCHUCHERT ANDREAS,
KUCK KARLHEINZ
Publication year - 1993
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.1540-8159.1993.tb01588.x
Subject(s) - programmer , medicine , emergency department , medical emergency , programming language , computer science , psychiatry
Electromagnetic signals coming from the pacemaker programmer can permanently damage multiprogrammable pacemakers. At a follow‐up of a six fold programmable VVI pacemaker (Phoenix 251–6, Pacesetter), the emergency VVI button was activated on the programmer after the programming of the pacing impulse had induced a loss of capture. The next telemetrical interrogation revealed an alteration to a threefold programmable Programmalith III. The inadvertent programming of the model number occurred, because the programming head was removed at one very specific time in the programming sequence of the emergency VVI command.