A Recommended Protocol for Pacemaker Follow-up: Analysis of 1,705 Implanted Pacemakers

Mantini, Emil L.; Majors, Raymond K.; Kennedy, James R.; Lebo, G. R.

doi:10.1016/s0003-4975(10)64574-2

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“…Pacemakers may fail for a variety of reasons including battery failure, rising thresholds, and lead failure. Clues to all of these malfunctions can be detected by telephone transmission from the patient's own home, a mechanism of follow‐up which has been in use since the 1970s 1–4 . Each transmission includes an initial short rhythm strip followed by a threshold margin test and finally another rhythm strip demonstrating the magnet rate of the pacemaker system.…”

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“…Clues to all of these malfunctions can be detected by telephone transmission from the patient's own home, a mechanism of follow-up which has been in use since the 1970s. [1][2][3][4] Each transmission includes an initial short rhythm strip followed by a threshold margin test and finally another rhythm strip demonstrating the magnet rate of the pacemaker system. Pacemaker malfunction may result in abnormalities in any or all of the three components of the transmission.…”

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The Effectiveness of Transtelephonic Monitoring of Pacemaker Function in Pediatric Patients

Fox¹,

Mackenzie²,

Flemming³

et al. 2007

Pacing Clinical Electrophis

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Values for sensitivity and specificity indicate that telephone transmission is a useful diagnostic tool for assessing pacemaker function at a distance. Negative predictive value is 99.9%, indicating that normal telephone transmissions are very reassuring of normal pacemaker function. Telephone transmission is equally successful in all age groups, genders, distances from a tertiary referral center, underlying diagnoses, pacing modes, and pacemaker models. Compliance with telephone transmission follow-up was higher in our population than in previous studies.

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