Follow-up of a minute ventilation rate adaptive pacemaker.
Although rate adaptive pacemakers are now frequently prescribed, there is limited information regarding long-term follow-up of patients with a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation. We have examined our patients in whom a pacemaker capable of rate adaptation via a sensor that determines minute ventilation has been implanted. After following a group of 42 patients for a mean of 13.2 months we have found this to be a reliable rate adaptive pacing system. The sensor was reliable long term, the system is easy to program, and sensor settings were changed infrequently.
D000368:Aged; D001146:Arrhythmia, Sinus / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006327:Heart Block / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012119:Respiration / Q000502:physiology*; D013689:Telephone; D013997:Time Factors