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Temporary / External Cardiac Pacing
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External cardiac pacing is a technique for temporarily treating brady- and tachydysryhthmias in the ICU. This #OnePager covers the basics, including types of pacing leads (transvenous vs epicardial, bipolar vs unipolar), pacing modes (VVI, DDD, etc), and a stepwise guide to initiating pacing.
Current version 1.1 (originally posted 2021-01-22; updated 2021-01-25).
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Temporary Transvenous Catheter-Electrode Pacing of the Heart, Circulation 1967
Overdrive pacing for supraventricular tachycardia: a review of theoretical implications and therapeutic techniques, Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 1978
Temporary epicardial pacing after cardiac surgery: a practical review, Anesthesiology 2007
Post operative temporary epicardial pacing: When, how and why? Annals of Pediatric Cardiology 2008
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Current version 1.1 (originally posted 2021-01-22; updated 2021-01-25).
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Advantages and disadvantages of various pacing modes, Deranged Physiology