title: Dual-chamber pacing.
abstract: Dual-chamber pacing has been available since the early 1980s, yet it is a topic with which critical care nurses consistently have difficulty. New advances in pacemaker technology have built on the principles inherent in dual-chamber pacing, making it imperative that practitioners have a basic understanding of dual-chamber pacemaker function. With dwindling clinical resources, the responsibility of the bedside nurse to evaluate appropriate pacemaker function and identify the patient's response to pacemaker therapy has increased.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: McErlean
mesh_terms: D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans