Does tailored Automatic Capture Management (ACM) programming based on atrial threshold variability ensure effective atrial stimulation in pacemaker patients?
Tailoring Automatic Capture Management programming based on patient conduction characteristics and time from implantation ensures highly effective atrial stimulation.
The reliability of ACM is high over a long follow-up. On the basis of atrial threshold variability, a practical approach to ACM programming should be two daily atrial threshold measurements in patients with normal AV conduction and%Ap 40% or with recurrent atrial fibrillation and AVB. The lowest adapted stimulation output should achieve at least threshold +1 V in the first trimester after implantation, then threshold +0.5 V thereafter, in order to achieve > 99.5% effective atrial stimulation.
Biffi et al. (Sat,) studied this question.