Acute performance evaluation of a new ventricular automatic capture algorithm

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-69

  Sperzel, Johannes ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^b   Himmrich, Ewald ^c   Zhang, Geng ^d   König, Andreas ^e   Willems, Roger ^e   Reister, Craig ^d   Sathaye, Alok ^d   Fröhlig, Gerd ^f  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Guidant Corporation   (Belgium)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic capture verification; Pacemaker; Pacing artifact; Pacing threshold; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PATIENT SAFETY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ALGORITHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMETRY;

EID: 33745287748     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euj008     Document Type: Article

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