First experience with an automatic sensing algorithm in single-lead VDD stimulation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11 II, 1998, Pages 2232-2235

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Fellmann, Peter ^a   Maertens, Steven ^b   Mols, Roland ^b   Demetz, Kathy ^b   Brüls, Annette ^b   Geil, Stephanie ^a   Voigtländer, Thomas ^a   Himmrich, Ewald ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Intermedics Europe SA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial sensing; Automatic sensing algorithm; Undersensing; VDD pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTOMATION; BIOSENSOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0031724607     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01158.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Castro A, Liebold A, Vincente J, et al. Evaluation of autosensing as an automatic means of maintaining a 2:1 sensing safety margin in an implanted pacemaker. PACE 1996; 19:1708-1713.
2. Rosenquist M, Lagergren H, Strandberg H, et al. Valsalva-induced variations in the intracardiac signal. PACE 1985; 8:856-861.
3. Shandling AH, Florio J, Castellanet MJ, et al. Physical determinants of the endocardial P wave. PACE 1990; 13:1585-1589.
4. Ross BA, Ziegler V, Zinner A, et al. The effect of exercise on the atrial electrogram voltage in young patients. PACE 1991; 14:2092-2097.
5. Lau CP, Leung SK, Lee ISF. Comparative evaluation of acute and long-term clinical performance of two single lead atrial synchronous ventricular (VDD) pacemakers: Diagonally arranged bipolar versus closely spaced bipolar ring electrodes. PACE 1996; 19:1574-1581.
6. Nowak B, Voigtländer T, Rosocha S, et al. How to programme the atrial sensing threshold in single-lead VDD pacing: Sensing tests, safety margins or most sensitive value? Eur JCPE 1997; 7:168-173.
7. Toivonen L, Lommi J. Dependence of atrial sensing function on posture in a single-lead atrial-triggered ventricular (VDD) pacemaker. PACE 1996; 19:309-313.
8. Varriale P, Chryssos BB. Atrial sensing performance ' of the single-lead VDD pacemaker during exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 22:1854-1857.
9. Nowak B, Middeldorf T, Housworth CM, et al. Holter recordings with continuous marker annotations: A new tool in pacemaker diagnostics. PACE 1996; 19:1791-1795.