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- Title
Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator/Permanent Pacemaker Interaction: Loss of Pacemaker Capture Following AICD Discharge.
- Authors
Slepian, Marvin; Levine, Joseph H.; Watkins Jr., Levi; Brinker, Jeffrey; Guarnieri, Thomas
- Abstract
A 78-year-old man treated with amiodarone for recurrent ventricular tachycardia, had sequential placement of a bipolar VVI pacemaker and an automatic Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD). During defibrillation threshold testing, there was failure to capture of the pacer in the post-shock period. The time of failure to capture appeared energy-related; the greater the energy delivered, the longer the failure to capture. Careful attention will be necessary in constructing combined AICD/pacemaker units.
- Subjects
THERAPEUTICS; IMPLANTABLE cardioverter-defibrillators; CARDIAC pacemakers; VENTRICULAR tachycardia; AMIODARONE; IMPLANTED cardiovascular instruments
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1987, Vol 10, Issue 5, p1194
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb06140.x