Self-Adjusting Pacemaker?

Does anyone else here have one of the new self-adjusting pacemakers? I got mine 3 weeks ago. I was told it was "top of the line" (Medtronic) and it will analyze and adjust settings automatically. I had quite a bit of trouble getting the settings right on my last PM so, if this works... wow!

2 Comments

What's new?

by golden_snitch - 2013-05-05 03:05:39

Hi!

I don't understand what's new about that. All pacemakers I know have self-adjusting thresholds, auto capture for atria and ventricles, lead management etc. My rate response learns and adjusts itself, if you set it to "automatic", and even the pacer I had put in in 1999 did that. That's what the cardios ask the manufacturers for, because all those automatic features make their job easier and check-up appointments take less time. Don't like it, because that way many patients end up never having their settings optimized manually. I have most of my automatic features switched off, my cardio programs them manually. Have had too much trouble with automatic adjustments, especially when it comes to the rate response.

Would be interesting to hear what's new about your model? Do you know which Medtronic model you got?

Best wishes
Inga

Inga...

by Sabine - 2013-05-05 06:05:03

Thanks for the information. I have been searching the Internet to try to understand. I have more questions than answers at this point. I haven't received my card in the mail yet, which will tell me which model I got. My last pacemaker was put in in 2006. I needed to have some sort of sensitivity adjusted a couple of times, as well as the upper and lower BMP limit (this one is preset to the same lower BMP as I had settled on with my old one but the upper and lower limits can still be changed by the technician).

I am feeling much better than I did with the old pacemaker but that is no doubt due to the fact that this one is a dual chamber. I had an atrial lead added due to AV dyssynchrony.

I have learned more about pacemakers from this site than anywhere else. Thank you for responding and helping me to understand a bit more.

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