Failure to Sense
Report:
Atrial fibrillation 1
Ventricular pacemaker 1
Failure to sense 2
R-on-T pacing 2
Fusion beat 2
Incomplete right bundle branch block 1
Nonspecific ST/t changes 1
Comment:
Failure to sense is only intermittent, since the pacemaker discharge is inhibited for much of the tracing. The third spike falls on the T wave of the preceding complex but is too early to cause a depolarisation. The second last spike participates in a ventricular fusion beat.
In failing pacemakers, ability to sense is, as a general rule, lost before the ability to pace.
More of the same is shown below (Fig 51a). A trace 6 month later (not shown) still showed the same problem. I could not see why she needed a pacemaker in the first place. Her coronary arteries were normal, with LV ejection fraction 69%. I was not reassured. I would have waited for better evidence in view of the long-known complications of permanent pacing31.
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