Specifications

7 x 9 inches (178 mm x 229 mm)
Medtronic Confidential
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Instructions.
196407001 Rev A
Indications for Permanent Pacing in
Acquired Atrioventricular Block in Adults
Class I:
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Complete heart block, permanent or intermittent, at any anatomic
level, associated with any one of the following complications:
- Symptomatic bradycardia. In the presence of complete heart block,
symptoms must be presumed to be due to the heart block unless
proved to be otherwise.
- Congestive heart failure.
- Ectopic rhythms and other medical conditions that require drugs
that suppress automaticity of escape pacemakers and result in
symptomatic bradycardia.
- Documented periods of asystole ≥ 3 seconds or any escape rate
< 40 bpm in symptom-free patients.
- Confusional states that clear with temporary pacing.
- Post A-V junction ablation, myotonic dystrophy.
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Second-degree AV Block, permanent or intermittent, regardless of the
type or the site of block with symptomatic bradycardia
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Atrial fibrillation, flutter or rare cases of supraventricular tachycardia
with complete heart block or advanced AV block, and any other
conditions described above under complete heart block. The
bradycardia must be unrelated to digitalis or drugs known to impair
AV conduction.
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