Galuschky C W, Webster J G
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA.
Med Biol Eng Comput. 1998 Mar;36(2):233-7. doi: 10.1007/BF02510750.
To investigate the operation of dual-chamber cardiac pacemakers, a pacemaker tester is developed that is able to examine pacemaker parameters, demand modes and rate-adaptive modes. The tester generates simplified electrograms and responds to pacemaker pulses in a closed-loop simulation. The authors describe the hardware and the software algorithm of the tester. To demonstrate the capabilities of the tester, four tests are presented, together with their results on a rate-adaptive dual-chamber pacemaker.
