Interpertation of Pacemaker

Hey everyone, I'm John. I'm 23 and had a pacemaker placed in April of this year (2017) for Bradycardia and syncope. I received a letter from my physicians office a few days ago regarding my pacemaker interpretation for the month of June. It says that everything is normal BUT I'm having infrequent episodes of afib that was never seen before my pacemaker has been inserted. 

 

Anyone else have the same thing happen to them? 

2 Comments

pacing reports

by Tracey_E - 2017-07-25 08:58:10

it's likely you always had infrequent episodes, but you didn't have a handy dandy pacemaker recording them. Many of us find we have minor secondary problems, things most of the population also  has but isn't monitored enough to pick it up. 

parameters are set

by bridgermichael - 2017-07-25 19:36:33

we all have different teams from cardiac units doing similar monitoring but all with different ways - at end of day the download or graph is measuring above and below the set parameters - I for instance have low heart beat arrhythmia but get graphed at high issues or long episodes - when they put the leads and box over you they look for your upper and lower readings and tweak where they want the next monitoring to be above or below - if they set low then it will show everything above the set data and likewise below - they chart it and send to cardiologist for investigation and from that they may call u back to tweak the low and high settings - as a result it can be amazing how many times it triggers a reading that were still happening before you had pacemaker but not picked up on - don't worry - as the Dvla say now - we happy you have pm now as u unlikely to have an episode that could cause incident as the unit will take over and stabilise

 

feel thankful and enjoy life ! 

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