WHAT KIND OF PROGRAMMING GIVES THE OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE IN RATE-RESPONSE VENTRICULAR PACING

The answer to the question posed in this chapter title is simple: the one that gets as close as possible to physiological sinus rate. The problem arises when we try to achieve this setting. When programming a rate-adaptive system we need to consider three basic factors: the basal rate, the maximum rate-response (R-R) rate and the particular parameters of the selected sensor.