NCT01906775

Sub-threshold Pacing to Prevent Pacemaker-induced Ventricular Tachycardia

Sub-threshold Ventricular Back-up Pacing to Prevent Pacemaker-induced Ventricular Tachycardia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 550 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) may have the capacity to provoke or worsen ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT). It has been reported that ICD shocks by itself can increase mortality. This study aimed to determine the role of back-up pacing-induced VT (PIT) to the overall ICD shock burden by avoiding pause-related ventricular back-up pacing by programming the pacing output to a sub-threshold level for ineffective pacing.

Conditions

• Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias
• ICD Shock Therapy
• ICD Shock Burden

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Programming the pacemaker output for ventricular back-up pacing to a sub-threshold level	Programming the pacemaker output for ventricular back-up pacing to a sub-threshold level to achieve an ineffective pacing output

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2013-07-24
• Last updated: 2013-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany