How to program rate responsive pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-173

  Greco, Enrico Maria ^a,b   Guardini, Silvia ^a   Ferrario, Marco ^a   Romano, Salvatore ^a  

^a Cardiology Department   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary exercise test; Oxygen pulse reserve; Rate adaptive pacemakers; Software

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SENSOR; SINUS RHYTHM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033953032     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00797.x     Document Type: Article

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