Clinical evaluation of two different evoked response sensing methods for automatic capture detection in the left ventricle

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 865-873

  Goetze, Stephan ^a   Sperzel, Johannes ^b   Biffi, Mauro ^c   Sathaye, Alok ^d   Brooke, M Jason ^d   Doelger, Annette ^e   Schubert, Bernd ^e   Butter, Christian ^f  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Boston Scientific Corporation   (Belgium)

^f Evangelisch Freikirchliches Krankenhaus und Herzzentrum Brandenburg in Bernau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic capture detection; Evoked response; Left ventricular; Pacing threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOMATION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PULSE GENERATOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34250788738     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00774.x     Document Type: Article

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