User's Manual

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Rate Adaptation
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Setting the decrease speed to 0.5 ppm per cycle means that the rate
decreases from 150 ppm to 60 ppm in 180 cycles, for example.
In the modes DDIR and DVIR, the rate decrease is slightly slower than
indicated here (partly depending on the programmed AV delay).
The programmed rate decrease setting applies only to the decrease in
pacing rate during sensor-driven operation and does not affect the
pacing rate during atrial-controlled ventricular pacing.
Figure 22: Rate decrease following exertion
Sensor Simulation
Even when a non-rate-adaptive mode is programmed, the sensor
response is recorded without it even having been activated. In other
words, the sensor simulation indicates how the sensor would have
responded if a rate-adaptive mode had been programmed.
This function is helpful to find the optimum sensor settings and to
compare the sensor rate with the intrinsic rate.