Do Prehospital Discharge Pacemaker Checks Provide Any Additional Clinical Benefit?
| Autor: | Peter J. Wells, Brent Sakowski, Thomas P. Beveridge, Ravi Vallabahn, Michael S. Donsky, B. Jane Moore, Susan S. Bruce, Kevin R. Wheelan, L. Murphy Johnston, Darlene Legge, Jay O. Franklin, David Roberts |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pacemaker
Artificial medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Safety margin Single Center Patient Discharge Confidence interval Surgery Atrial Lead Postoperative Complications Internal medicine Emergency medicine medicine Cardiology Retrospective analysis Humans Equipment Failure Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Complication Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Cardiology. 96:414-416 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9149 |
| Popis: | We performed a retrospective analysis of 250 records of consecutive, newly implanted, pacemaker patients from a single center to determine the rate of postimplant complications and observations discovered before and during the prehospital discharge evaluation. No observations occurred in 246 of 250 patients (98.4%) (1-sided 95% confidence interval 96.4%). Of the 250 patients, 4 had observations that were discovered at the prehospital discharge check and required reprogramming to increase the sensitivity safety margin (3 atrial and 1 ventricular). We documented only 1 complication that was discovered before the predischarge evaluation through telemetry and resulted in an atrial lead revision. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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