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Thoracic impedance measurement in heart stimulation and cardiac arrhythmias
Author(s) -
Ząbek Andrzej,
Boczar Krzysztof,
NowosielskaZąbek Ewa,
Holcman Katarzyna,
Ulman Mateusz,
Lelakowski Jacek,
Małecka Barbara
Publication year - 2021
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/pace.14121
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , ventricular fibrillation , atrial fibrillation
The electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is often a puzzling problem. The difficulty of the device function evaluation further increases in the presence of unfamiliar timing cycles and additional functions. We present an interesting ECG with a special function of a Biotronik ICD devices called the thoracic impedance monitoring, and demonstrate its behavior in a patient with atrial fibrillation, pacing beats, ventricular ectopic beats, and couple of ventricular beats. This report shows unexceptional occurrence of tricky ECG finding in patient with Biotronik ICDs.