50% atrial pacing for Syncope

My one week checkup for my Biotronik Evia shows that its pacing my top chamber 50% of the time.

That's higher than we expected being as we put it due to persistent vasovagal syncope

Does anyone else with syncope know what percentage you are paced? I wonder what is "normal range" for syncope patients.

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89%

by Pookie - 2012-05-08 10:05:58

I was diagnosed with Neurocardiogenic Syncope although I only did the full faint once but always felt like I was going to faint.

I pace 89% in the upper chamber and less than 1% in the ventricle.

However, when I 1st received my pacemaker back in 2004 I was only pacing 27% and felt horrible. Over the years with going back & forth to the Pacemaker Clinic they finally got my settings adjusted to where I feel "normal" but my % went way up.

As long as I feel okay, the % is just a number.

Pookie

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