title: Potential causes of spurious programming: report of a case.
abstract: The possibility of false or inadvertent reprogramming increases with the availability of different and more complex programming mechanisms. A case of spurious programming during application of the Vitatron MPA1 analyzer to a Medtronic impulse generator (IPG) is described and the nature of the phenomenon is explained. It is concluded that the introduction of a simple and standardized "security-maneuvre" to which every IPG will respond safely, in the event of fortuitous dysprogramming, is required.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000592:standards*; D012804:Sick Sinus Syndrome / Q000628:therapy