Automatic Implantable Cardioverter/ Defibrillator: Inadvertent Discharges During Permanent Pacemaker Magnet Tests

SOO G. KIM; SEYMOUR FURMAN; JEFFREY A. MATOS; LAWRENCE E. WASPE; RICHARD BRODMAN; JOHN D. FISHER

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb04523.x

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter/ Defibrillator: Inadvertent Discharges During Permanent Pacemaker Magnet Tests

SOO G. KIM, SEYMOUR FURMAN, JEFFREY A. MATOS, LAWRENCE E. WASPE, RICHARD BRODMAN, JOHN D. FISHER

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Abstract

A patient with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)® received two inadvertent shacks when a magnet was placed over the pacer during a routine permanent pacer check. Analysis of the rhythm strip suggested that both patients’ QRS complexes (133 beats/minute) and asynchronous pacer artifacts (70 beats/minute) were counted by the AICD sensing system and exceeded the rate criteria of 153 beats/minute. This resulted in shocks from the AICD during sinus rhythm at 133 beats/minute. To avoid possible inadvertent shocks, an AICD should be deactivated while a magnet is placed over the pacemaker during a permanent pacer check.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	579-582
Number of pages	4
Journal	Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb04523.x
State	Published - May 1987

Keywords

AICD
AICD/pacer interaction
pacemakers

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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