Pacemaker Electrode Short Causes Failure to Sense/Pace.Biomedical Safety & Standards
Types: CRT-P: with pacemaker CRT-D: with defibrillator (used in majority of individuals with EF ≤ 35%, as there is often a concomitant indication for ICD)Benefits: ↑ LV systolic function ↑ LV reverse remodeling (LV size decreases) ↑ Myocardial contractility (without ↑ in myocardial...
His tinkering brought him into conflict with his insurers, who initially advised him not to tamper with the device, but eventually agreed to foot the bill for the replacement parts, after he convinced them he was suitably qualified. “They put really big obstacles in my way, or at least the...
Heart rate elevations as harbingers of decompensation may be blunted by β-blockers, antiarrhythmic therapies, and pacemaker dependence. Unlike cardiac filling pressures, heart rate and heart rate variability do not return to baseline until days after hospital discharge, limiting these signals for ...
Telemedicine in chronic diseases like heart failure is rapidly evolving and has two important goals: improving and individualising care as well as reducing
Vitolarsen is an anti-sense oligonucleotide exon skipping therapy that works by shifting the reading frame to convert a DMD out-of-frame variant to an in-frame variant. Vitolarsen is a genetic therapy that modifies gene expression in vivo without changing the genome. Treatment with vitolarsen ha...
In the ICD/CRT-D cohort, there was 75% power to detect a device–race/ethnicity interaction, but there was only 41% and 15% power in the ICD-only and cardiac resynchronization pacemaker/CRT-D cohorts, respectively. In light of this modest statistical power, additional well-powered studies ...
15 The emphasis in BA is on improving patient mood, sense of control, and activity level by increasing engagement in pleasurable and rewarding tasks without delving into complex cognitive domains explored in CBT, which makes it more suitable for patients with HF.16 BA has lower implementation ...
FIG. 15 is a simplified functional block diagram of an embodiment of an implantable cardiac device, illustrating basic elements that may be configured to sense conditions in the patient, deliver therapy to the patient, or provide some combination thereof. ...
(St. Jude) that use circuitry and algorithms within the implanted device to measure the electrical impedance between different leads of the pacemaker. As thoracic fluid increases in the CHF patient, the impedance typically is reduced. Thus this parameter, when read by an interrogating device placed...