Dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker with automatic mode switc

Details Dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker with automatic mode switc Dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker with automatic mode switc

1991-03-15

1992-09-08

Kamm, William E.

Surgery

Truss

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A61N 1368

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051449498

ABSTRACT:
A dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker with automatic mode switching between the DDD mode, the VVIR mode, and the DDIR mode, based on the difference between the average sensor rate and the average atrial rate. The primary pacing mode of operation is DDD, unless that mode is contraindicated by too great a difference between the average sensor rate and the average atrial rate. When the average sensor rate and average atrial rates are not too different, the DDD mode prevails. During bouts of sustained atrial tachyarrhythmia or atrial oversensing, the average atrial rate is greater than the average sensor rate. When that difference exceeds a programmable function of the two rates, the mode is switched to VVIR to avoid tracking high atrial rates. Conversely, if there is atrial chronotropic incompetence or atrial undersensing, then the average sensor rate is greater than the average atrial rate. If that difference exceeds a second programmable function of the two rates, then the system switches mode to DDIR to provide increased rate response and to preserve AV synchrony. Fallback, riseup, hysteresis at switching boundaries, average atrial rate computation, atrial upper rate limit (AURL), sensor upper rate limit (SURL), use of refractory atrial sensed events for P-P intervals, synchronization when switching to DDD mode, blanking and refractory periods are set forth herein.

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