Population
1 patient with a minute ventilation rate responsive ventricular pacemaker undergoing an open-heart surgical…
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Case_report
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May prompt pre-operative reprogramming of minute-ventilation pacemakers; hypothesis-generating case report leaves open need for prospective validation.
Minute ventilation rate responsive pacemakers should be reprogrammed to inhibited mode before surgery to prevent inappropriate tachycardia and hemodynamic deterioration from electrocautery.
Hemel et al. (1989) studied this question.
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