Dual-demand pacing for reciprocating atrioventricular tachycardia. Issue 6018 (8th May 1976)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Krikler, D; Curry, P; Buffet, J
• Is Part Of: BMJ. Volume 1:Issue 6018(1976)
• Page Start: 1114
• Page End: 1116
• Publication Date: 1976-05-08
• Subjects: Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine; Periodicals; 610
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6018.1114
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1447

Abstract

Abstract : By using programmed electrical stimulation of the heart and studying the initiation and termination of reciprocating atrioventricular tachycardia two patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome were shown to respond rapidly and consistently to fixed-rate pacing. A demand pacemaker was implanted in each patient, having been modified so as to switch into the fixed-rate mode whenever the tachycardia began, thereby terminating the arrhythmia. This appears to be a promising form of treatment in patients with otherwise intractable paroxysmal tachycardia who have been shown by careful study to respond in this way.