Alert message for ventricular arrhythmia: episode of classified ventricular fibrillation Patient
Tracing
Manufacturer Biotronik
Device Remote monitoring
Field Messages and events
N° 13
Patient
This 39-year-old man received a Lumax 340 VR-T single chambre defibrillator for management of Brugada syndrome with syncope; an alert message was transmitted 2 years after device implantation.
Graph and trace
Telemedicine report
Alert message (yellow status) for episode of classified ventricular fibrillation.
The report shows that the patient sustained an episode diagnosed in the ventricular fibrillation zone, with interruption of the capacitors charge and no shock delivery. Analysis of the EGM shows a typical aspect of intermittent oversensing of the T wave.
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