Activity-based rate-adaptive pacemakers under hyperbaric conditions

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-183

  Trigano, Alexandre ^a   Lafay, Vincent ^b   Blandeau, Olivier ^a   Levy, Samuel ^a   Gardette, Bernard ^c   Micoli, Christophe ^c  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Unit Salvator Hospital Public Assistance Marseille Hospitals University Aix Marseille II   (France)

^c Centre for Hyperbaric Studies ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Activity sensing pacemakers; Rate adaptive pacing

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DEVICE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; HYPERBARISM; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

DIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PRESSURE;

EID: 33749426355     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-006-9004-x     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Divers Alert Network. http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/faq.
2. Kratz, J. M., Blackburn, J. G., Leman, R. B., & Crawford, F. (1983). Cardiac pacing under hyperbaric conditions. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 36, 66-68.
3. Lau, C. P., Stott, J., Toff, W., Zetlein, M., Ward, D., & Camm, V. J. (1988). Selective vibration sensing. Pacing and Clin Electrophysiol, 11, 1299-1309.
4. Lau, C. P., Tai, Y. T., Fong, P. C., Li, J., Leung, S. K., Chung, F., et al. (1992). Cinical experience with an activity-sensing DDDR pacemaker using an accelerometer sensor. Pacing and Clin Electrophysiol, 15, 334-342.
5. UK Sport diving medical committee. http://www.uksdmc.co.uk/standards.
6. Wilkoff, B., Shimokochi, D., & Schaal, S. (1987). Pacing rate increase due to application of steady external pressure on an activity sensing pacemaker (abstract). Pacing and Clin Electrophysiol, 10, 423.
7. Wilmshurst, P. (1998). Cardiovascular problems in divers. Heart, 80, 537-538.
8. Wood, M., & Ellenbogen, K. (2002). Cardiac pacemakers from the patient's perspective. Circulation, 105, 2136-2138.