Pacemaker Essentials: Oversensing
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Over the next few weeks, we will be posting videos from the Pacemaker Essentials Course. Learn to recognize oversensing, its causes and how it is resolved (through decreasing sensitivity or the use of alternate algorithms).
Further Reading
- Course: Pacemaker Essentials
- Types of pacemakers
- Common pacemaker issues: Failure to capture
- Common pacemaker issues: Undersensing
- Common pacemaker issues: Oversensing
- Troubleshooting with vectors
- Workshop: Pacemaker essentials
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Kristian Webb CCDS. International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) certified specialist in cardiac pacemakers and ICDs. Chief cardiac physiologist in a pacemaker clinic that carries out over 4,000 pacemaker checks per year. | Medmastery |