Activity controlled cardiac pacemakers during stairwalking: A comparison of accelerometer with vibration guided devices and with sinus rate

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1036-1041

  Matula, Markus ^a   Schlegl, Michael ^a   Alt, Eckhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

accelerometer; cardiac pacemakers; exercise; rate adaptive cardiac pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLIMBING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SINUS RHYTHM; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0029789773     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03410.x     Document Type: Article

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