1. A Battery Life beyond His 'Expectancy'.
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STRÖKER, ERWIN, PAPPAERT, GUDRUN, ROELANDT, BRIAN, BRUGADA, PEDRO, and de ASMUNDIS, CARLO
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TREATMENT of cardiomyopathies ,CARDIOVASCULAR agents ,ATRIAL fibrillation ,CARDIAC pacing ,ELECTRIC power supplies to apparatus ,IMPLANTABLE cardioverter-defibrillators ,MEDICAL equipment reliability ,THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 77-year-old man with an implanted Medtronic Viva Quad XT Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D) device. The patient underwent an actual device interrogation which showed a Power-on-Reset (PoR) activity leading to an electrical reset of the device. An aberrant behavior of the battery life indicator on Meditronic devices can be caused by PoR.
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- 2015
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