Current status of anti-bradycardial electrotherapy.
A review of the current status of cardiac pacing in the treatment of cardiac bradyarrhythmias is presented. The article describes the indications, haemodynamic principles of differentiated treatment and the technical potential of a new generation of (multi-mode and multi-parameter programmable, rate responsive) devices.
Witte
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University Clinic of Internal Medicine, Charité Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, GDR.
D001919:Bradycardia / Q000628:therapy*; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial