Key result
Implantable pacing and defibrillation devices can suppress premature beats, prevent atrial fibrillation, and deliver shocks to terminate atrial tachyarrhythmias and restore sinus rhythm.
Why the study?
Do implantable devices (overdrive pacing, dual-site pacing, atrial defibrillators) prevent or terminate atrial fibrillation?
Do implantable devices (overdrive pacing, dual-site pacing, atrial defibrillators) prevent or terminate atrial fibrillation?
Implantable devices offer pacing and defibrillation strategies to prevent and terminate atrial fibrillation.
May guide device therapy in refractory AF; leaves open need for randomized confirmation.
Overdrive pacing can suppress premature beats and other triggers of atrial fibrillation. Dual-site pacing may help prevent atrial fibrillation. An implantable atrial defibrillator can be programmed and can deliver shocks to terminate atrial tachyarrhythmias and restore sinus rhythm.
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Cooper et al. (2002) studied this question. Implantable pacing and defibrillation devices can suppress premature beats, prevent atrial fibrillation, and deliver shocks to terminate atrial tachyarrhythmias and restore sinus rhythm.
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