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- Title
An Implantable Pulse Generator Indicating Asystole or Extreme Bradycardia.
- Authors
Edhag, K. Olof; Elmqvist, Håkan; Vallin, Hans O.
- Abstract
The design of a pacemaker which indicates the occurrence of significant bradyarrhythmia is described. Significant bradyarrhythmia is defined as either asystole for 6 seconds, bradycardia with three successive RR-intervals greater than 2 seconds each, or five or more RR-intervals of 2 seconds or more over a period of 25 seconds, but without three such intervals in succession. During bradyarrhythmia the generator initially stimulates at an interval of 2 seconds (30 per minute) and when the described criteria have been fullfilled the pacemaker automatically converts to a conventional ventricular inhibited pulse generator stimulating at a rate of 70 per minute.
- Subjects
BRADYCARDIA; ARTIFICIAL implants; CARDIAC pacing; CARDIAC contraction; PULSE (Heart beat)
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1983, Vol 6, Issue 2, p166
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1983.tb04343.x