Download acronyms

After reviewing a download from my pacemaker, some of the acronyms I understood or were explained by the Pacemaker club abbreviation list, however many were not. Here’s are two examples.

 

 

Episode date time                                             201703211138  (March 21st, 2017 at 1138) I assume.

Episode type category                                     VT (ventricular tachycardia) I’m guessing.

Episode detection interval ventricular 353 ms  (not sure what 353ms  means or how it relates to 26s)

Episode duration 26s

Episode detection and therapy                      NonSustV (no clue what this means)

 

 

Here’s another example that got my attention.

 

Episode Identifier                                               ATR-2

Date and time                                                    3-18-2017 at 2344 hundred.

Episode type Category                                       AT/AF      (atrial fibulation?)

Episode Vendor type category                             ATR          (no clue. Atrial something I guess)

Episode detection interval atrial                          177ms     (again, how does this relate to the episode duration?)

Episode duration                                                232724s  (lasted 64.6 hours?)

Episode detection and therapy                            ATR Avg V rate in ATR: 101 bpm. (I get the average                                   

                                                                        beats per minute but not the ATR average.)

Can anybody explain what these abbreviations mean?

2 Comments

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by jcb - 2017-04-18 12:47:46

VT : ventricular tachycardia

Episode detection interval ventricular 353 ms  and  Episode duration 26s : 170 beats/min during an episode of 26s

NonSustV : Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT)  defined as 3 or more consecutive beats at a rate of >120 beats/min and lasting < 30 s.

AT/AF:  atrial tachycardia/atrial fibrillation

ATR: atrial tachy response or atrial tracking rate

Episode detection interval atrial 177ms  : 339 beats/min

Episode duration:  232724s  (lasted 64.6 hours?)

Episode detection and therapy ATR Avg V rate in ATR: 101 bpm. : the average ventricular rate during ATR episodes

general

by pfcjr - 2017-04-18 15:38:21

Thank you for the info. 

How do you calculate 177ms into 339 beats/minute?
How could the duration last 232724 seconds without me being aware of it?

 

How does a ventricular tachycardia of 353ms calculate to 170 bpm?

 

My goal is to have at least s superficial knowledge of my condition so I can make informed decisions about treatment. I suppose I should go directly with my cardiologist but I'm dealing withh two different physicians and a number of other cardiac specialists and I sometimes gets different impressions from their answers.

I'm 75 years old, fairly well educated but not at all in medicine. 

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