Heart Failure

Studies in the area of heart failure reported from H. Nagele and co-researchers

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, November 8th, 2007

According to recent research published in the journal Europace, "Aims Stored electrograms or marker channels are available in most of modern cardiac pacemaker models. We sought to analyse these information to uncover terminal events of pacemaker patients dying suddenly."

"Method and results We made post-mortem pacemaker (PM) interrogations in 19 patients dying suddenly out of hospital between the years 1997 and 2005 (mean age 59 +/- 13 years, 90% mates). The systems had activated arrhythmia monitoring algorithms. Indications of pacing were sick sinus syndrome in seven, AV-btock in five, and heart failure due to asynchrony in seven cases. The interrogated...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2007-11-08)

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