151. Totally automated electrophysiologic testing of sinus node function
- Author
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Paul C. Gillette, William Combs, and Alexander J. Zinner
- Subjects
Adult ,Adolescent ,business.industry ,Computers ,Cardiac Pacing, Artificial ,Infant ,Arrhythmias, Cardiac ,Middle Aged ,Sinus node function ,Intracardiac injection ,Electrophysiology ,Surface ecg ,Child, Preschool ,Oscillometry ,Electrophysiologic study ,Data Display ,Medicine ,Humans ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Cardiac dysrhythmias ,business ,Child ,Software ,Biomedical engineering ,Sinoatrial Node - Abstract
The investigation of cardiac dysrhythmias has become increasingly more complex, time consuming, and expensive.’ A complex case requires 5 to 8 hours of physician time. Although automated computer technologies have been applied to dysrhythmia recognition by surface ECG and postcase measurement of electrophysiology data,2 they have not, to our knowledge, been used to perform stimulation protocols or measure stimulated intracardiac intervals automatically during electrophysiologic testing on line. It is the purpose of this article to report the development of a stimulation/measurement system and programs, which automatically measure intracardiac intervals during electrophysiologic study, and to compare these measurements to those obtained in the usual manner.
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- 1984