[French evaluation of cardiac stimulation].
A national enquiry into the problems related to definitive cardiac pacemakers, carried out in 1975, has yielded certain essential findings: the number of first-time implantations of pacemakers has been increasing by about 20% per annum; 92% of electrodes are currently implanted by an endocavitary technique, thoracotomy having now practically been abandoned; 90% of pacemakers implanted in 1975 were threshold models, inhibited by a QRS complex; the indications have become progressively wider, and are essentially related with the various forms of bradycardia, most frequently those due to atrio--ventricular block. In 1976, we have now reached a figure of about 200 new implantations of pacemakers per million inhabitants; those using lithium are increasingly superceding the mercury and isotope models.
D000368:Aged; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000628:therapy; D005602:France; D006327:Heart Block / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial
Bilan francais de la stimulation cardiaque.