Acute testing of the rate-smoothed pacing algorithm for ventricular rate stabilization

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 554-561

  Lee, John K ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Braney, Marilyn ^a   Stoop, Guus ^c   Begemann, Malcolm ^c   Dunne, Catherine ^b   Klein, George J ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a   Van Hemel, Norbert M ^c  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Medtronic of Canada Ltd   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Rate stabilization; Rate smoothed pacing; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; NADOLOL; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MALE; RR INTERVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SAFETY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0032902745     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00496.x     Document Type: Article

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