Impact of fusion avoidance on performance of the automatic threshold tracking feature in dual chamber pacemakers: A multicenter prospective randomized study

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1540-1545

  Candinas, Reto ^a   Liu, Bo ^b   Leal, Juan ^c   Sperzel, Johannes ^d   Fröhlig, Gerd ^e   Scharf, Christoph ^a   Duru, Firat ^a   Schüller, Hans ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Clinical Research Center   (Sweden)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^d KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autocapture; Dual chamber pacing; Energy consumption; Fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1842863778     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01540.x     Document Type: Article

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