Monitoring pacemaker patients.
This feature article provides a basic discussion of how pacemakers function and how physiologic ECG monitors detect pacemaker rhythms. The most common environmental conditions that can adversely affect pacemaker detection are described, along with clinical techniques that can be used to ensure optimum pacemaker detection.
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