Abbreviations on the PM transcript

I've been to my first checkup after getting a PM 14th December. It turns out I have much more A-fib than expected, 28 of 31 days, I had fibrillation for more than 4 hours. Four incidents of A-fib lasted for 96 hours.

I'm really feeling much better. I read my pulse with a sports watch, and my pulse confirms my feeling of getting better each week. But the PM report doesn't confirm the improvement.

Except from the frequent Afib, my first checkup was OK. On my doctors advice, I have started training again, with quite a normal training pulse of 120-150 on the bike and rowing machine, but without strain, around 60% and with only 5 minutes laps. I've also started with strength training and it feels quite OK.

To be able to control the training effect on the Afib, I train at the same time each day. Then, I can check the next PM report, to see if I had Afib incidents as a result of the training.

It would, of course, be much better to have a simultanous reading from the PM. But Medtronic doesn't have such a device. Hopefully, they will develop one.

I'm trying to sort out as much info as possible from my first PM report. But it is full of the medical tribale language. Does anybody have a reference to a list of abbreviations for the PM transcripts?

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Information - Abbreviations

by ccmoore - 2010-01-17 06:01:28

On the left hand side under information click on abbreviations.

Later,
Charlie

Abbreviations

by pacemaker writer - 2010-01-17 07:01:58

I used to write pacemaker manuals, including the programmer manuals. Maybe I can help? I can't promise since companies are different and some terms are very new, but share some if you can't find them listed.

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by ElectricFrank - 2010-01-18 02:01:06

Are you having office checkups or the telephone type. Recorded events events keep accumulating and the log is only reset when hooked to the computer in the office.

This makes it look like things are getting worse when they aren't.

Which abbreviations do you need. I have an Appendix to the current Medtronic Reference Manual which defines the terms.

frank

Thank's for helpful advice!

by otbergo - 2010-01-18 04:01:17

I've translated most of the PM report language to ordinary language with the help of the glossary of abbreviations in the left column. But I have 2 that I did not find there:

AHR episode
VHR episode

My guess

by ElectricFrank - 2010-01-19 12:01:40

AHR Atrial HIgh Rate Episodes
VHR Ventricular High Rate Episodes

There is usually a setting somewhere that sets the trigger for a high rate episode. In my Medtronic there is the rate trigger like 175 bpm and how many consecutive beats like 3.

So in my example if my ventricles experienced 175 bpm for 3 beats in a row it would trigger a VHR.

Does this fit?

frank

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