Dual-chamber cardiac pacemaker tester.
To investigate the operation of dual-chamber cardiac pacemakers, a pacemaker tester is developed that is able to examine pacemaker parameters, demand modes and rate-adaptive modes. The tester generates simplified electrograms and responds to pacemaker pulses in a closed-loop simulation. The authors describe the hardware and the software algorithm of the tester. To demonstrate the capabilities of the tester, four tests are presented, together with their results on a rate-adaptive dual-chamber pacemaker.
Galuschky
C W
CW
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA.
Webster
J G
JG
D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity