Abstract
Technical heart pacemakers are implanted on account of deficiencies in the rhythm generating and excitation conduction of the heart. The aim of sensorcontrolled pacemaker systems is beyond the preservation of life the greatest possible restoration of physiological adaptation to circulatory stress. If the intrinsic rhythm generator breaks down, this cannot be achieved ideally by a technical “shunt”, but approximative ley by sensing physical and/or physiological variables, suited for heart rate control. The latter leads both to openloop systems and to closed control-loops. The team of authors is engaged in the practical transfer of the socalled dromotropic pacemaker concept as a two-sensor- system.
| Translated title of the contribution | Sensor-controlled heart pacemaker systems |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 516-523 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | At-Automatisierungstechnik |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1998 |