First steps toward a pacing algorithm for vasovagal syncope

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3 II, 1997, Pages 827-828

  Sutton, Richard ^a,b   Petersen, Mark E V ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pacemaker; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; PACEMAKER; SYNCOPE;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SLEEP; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 0031003637     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03914.x     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Sutton R, Ingram A, Clarke M. DDI pacing in the treatment of sick sinus, carotid sinus and vasovagal syndromes. (abstract) PACE 1988; 11: 508.
2. Petersen M, Hess M, Markowitz T, et al. Acute human investigation of an algorithm to treat vasovagal syncope using a computer based simulator. (abstract) PACE 1995; 18:825.
3. US Patent No. 5,284,491. Sutton R, Bourgeois I. Cardiac pacemaker with hysteresis behaviour. February 8, 1994.
4. Zhu W-X, Rizo-Patron C, Berrier HB, et al: Value of dual chamber pacemakers with rate drop response/search hysteresis in the management vasovagal syncope and carotid hypersensitivity. (abstract) PACE 1995; 18:907.
5. Gammage M, Hess M, Markowitz T: Initial experience with a rate drop algorithm in malignant vasovagal syncope. Eur JCPE 1995; 5: 45-48.
6. Benditt DG, Sutton R, Gammage M, et al: Cardiac pacing in vasovagal syncope: Multi-center assessment of a rate drop response algorithm. (abstract) PACE 1996; 19:592.