Basics of Understanding the Inteerogation Report

Need help on understanding the basic of my Interrogation Report. The Medtroics website was useless, but perhaps I did not know how to search it. I want to know some simple definitions of DDDR, Mode Switch Detection Rate, Lower and Upper Tracking Rates, Episode Trigger, AS-VS, AP-VS etc. Perhaps this dictionary of common terminology is on our Club Site already. Could not locate it however.

Thank,

Ron

2 Comments

Understanding Report

by ElectricFrank - 2012-02-10 03:02:24

Take a look at the current newsletter found in the Latest News box. Select Pulse-Winter 2012. Near the end of the newsletter is an article I wrote on pacemaker settings that explains a lot of what you are asking about.

After reading the article feel free to post here again or send me a private message if you need to have any of it cleared up.

frank

Lower limits

by judy13 - 2012-06-01 06:06:57

Frank,

Thanks for that report. How do you find a doctor to work with you though? I just had a frustrating pacer check where the guy would not even give me a copy of the report when I asked for it. I know they can just run them off or use a copy machine.

Your comments about setting it on a treadmill is something I have always thought should be done, and never has with me. I gather from your comments that if your heart rate wants to be higher than what is set that the pacer and your natural rhythm interfere with each other creating a type of arrhythmia on its own and making one uncomfortable?

Anyhow, I had a question about the lower rate. The pacer report from the remote one they did explains the histogram and gives the number of events in each rate range. My lower limit is set to 60, but I have some 30,000 events lower than 60 (24,000 lower than 50 so we are not talking "almost 60"). This is not a lot in the scheme of things, I understand, but the way I thought pacers worked it should be virtually zero events lower than 60 (I understand why I get them higher than the upper limit). This is a Medtronic Versa like you have and what I am looking at is the "Long Term A-V Conduction Histogram Report"

Thanks for your help!

Judy

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