November 1, 1991Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Standardized Informal Exercise Testing for Programming Rate Adaptive Pacemakers
Population
Normal volunteers
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May aid standardization of informal testing for rate-adaptive pacemakers; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Normal volunteers
I
Intervention
Metronome-guided casual and brisk walks
O
Outcome
Expected heart rate response for casual and brisk walkssurrogate
Establishing normal heart rate responses to metronome-guided walking can help standardize informal exercise testing for programming rate-adaptive pacemakers.
Cite This Study
Hayes et al. (1991) studied this question.