historyonics?

Latest check up/ekg pacemaker not being used, i asked when it kicks in because there is also a rate response setting which senses when you may need an increase? The dr mentioned something called historyonics, what does that mean.

I have a st jude pm set at 70bpm min, put it beacause of bradycardia, low 30bpm, fainting etc. Did not have a problem increasing while exercising.

Any info appreciated Thanks Finn

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You shoulda Googled this one first...

by donr - 2012-06-30 02:06:12

...it would have you modify the question.

According to Google, it's either a personality disorder of extreme dramatics in expression or a British TV show.

Can't tell where you are from by reading your profile, but it is spelled either "Historyonics" as you have it - in British English or "Historionics" - in American English. Means the same thing.

Don

Hysteresis

by CanadianKirk2 - 2012-06-30 06:06:44

Is it possible that your doctor used the word "hysteresis" instead? My EP did at one point several years ago.

The best I can do is paste a dictionary definition:

hysteresis /hys¡¤te¡¤re¡¤sis/ (his¡Ètĕ-re¢¥sis) [Gr.]
1. a time lag in the occurrence of two associated phenomena, as between cause and effect.
2. in cardiac pacemaker terminology, the number of pulses per minute below the programmed pacing rate that the heart must drop in order to cause initiation of pacing.

CanadianKirk

Hysteresis

by donr - 2012-07-01 10:07:53

Yep - Hysteresis is probably it, not historyonics. I can see how the historyonics would stick in your mind, however, if you'd never heard the hysteresis word before.

I learned something from this one. Thanks a lot.

I'm an electrical engineer by education & magnetic hysteresis is a subject we all get crammed down our throats at one point or another. It essentially means delay or lag time I had never heard it in association w/ PM functioning, but upon a small amount of reading, can see where the principles of it would apply.

Thanks to Kirk for stopping by.

Don

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