Fletcher R D, Del Negro A A, Wish M
Cardiovasc Clin. 1986;16(3):115-33.
The role of pacing for arrhythmias will inevitably increase, both temporarily until a patient can be controlled with drug therapy and permanently in those cases in which drug therapy fails. While "ideal" antiarrhythmic drugs will continue to be sought, "ideal" pacing therapies will be developed. Inevitably the average patient with severe arrhythmia will benefit from a synergistic use of both modalities. The methods for capture, techniques to ensure success, standard and advanced pacing sequences, and specific indications will become as much a part of the armamentarium of the front-line clinician controlling the initial potentially lethal episodes as it has for the experienced electrophysiologist.
起搏在心律失常治疗中的作用必将不断增加，在患者能够通过药物治疗得到控制之前，它可起到临时作用；而在药物治疗失败的情况下，则可起到永久性作用。在人们继续寻找“理想”抗心律失常药物的同时，也将开发“理想”的起搏治疗方法。不可避免的是，患有严重心律失常的普通患者将受益于这两种治疗方式的协同使用。捕获方法、确保成功的技术、标准和先进的起搏程序以及具体适应症，将如同经验丰富的电生理学家所使用的那样，成为一线临床医生控制初始潜在致命发作的医疗手段的一部分。
