The Nuts and Bolts of Paced ECG Interpretation oBook

Tom Kenny Vice President Clinical Education & Training St. Jude Medical Austin, TX, USA

Preface. Before We Start ... Part I Timing Cycles and Troubleshooting Review. 1 Calculating Rates and Intervals. 2 Pacing Spikes. 3 The Basics of Capture and Sensing. 4 In Depth: Modes. 5 Ventricular Sensing. 6 Pacing Intervals. 7 Loss of Capture. 8 Oversensing. 9 In Depth: Sensing. 10 QRS Morphologies. 11 Fusion and Pseudofusion. 12 In Depth: Single-Chamber Timing Cycles. 13 Intermittent Oversensing. 14 Undersensing. 15 Hysteresis Intervals. 16 In Depth: Hysteresis. 17 Rate Response. 18 Annotated ECGs. 19 AV Synchrony. 20 Atrial Tracking. 21 AV Conduction. 22 States of Dual-Chamber Pacing. 23 Maximum Tracking Rate. 24 Pacemaker Multiblock. 25 Pacemaker Wenckebach. 26 Pacemaker-Mediated Tachycardia. 27 Mode Switching. 28 In Depth: Upper-Rate Behavior in Dual-Chamber Pacemakers. 29 Troubleshooting the Paced ECG. 30 More Troubleshooting the Paced ECG. 31 Automatic Capture Algorithms. 32 Capture Testing. 33 In Depth: Basic Troubleshooting Guide. 34 Navigating the Intracardiac Electrogram. 35 Tracings from a Programmer (Combining E-grams with the ECG). 36 Stored Electrograms. 37 In Depth: Electrograms. 38 Conclusion. Part II Workbook. Introduction to Workbook. Easy. Moderate. Tough. Scramble. Index.