The number of patients with implantable devices continues to grow. There are important aspects and difficulties in the perioperative management of these patients.
2. The perioperative period poses unique challenges to
ensure patient safety.
◦ Expanding use of potential sources of electromagnetic
interference (EMI)
◦ Great concern for phantom reprogramming
◦ Potential Lead/Device damage
◦ Rapid changes in CRM technology
Current complex digital transmission of
programming signals.
Contradictory advice
◦ Literature
◦ Manufactures
Great need for a consistent consensus document.
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3. Class I
1. Sinus node dysfunction with documented
symptomatic bradycardia
2. Symptomatic chronotropic incompetence (failure
to increase HR with exercise or increased metabolic
demand)
3. 3° and advanced 2° AV block associated with any
of the following:
Arrhythmias that require drugs resulting in
symptomatic bradycardia
Sinus pauses > 3 seconds
Asymptomatic escape rate < 40bpm while
awake
4. Type II 2° AV
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5. Causes:
Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 7th ed., 2005.
Failure to
Capture
Failure
to Pace
Failure
to Sense
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12. All patients with EF of <36% on good medical
therapy
Patients who have survived a VT or VF arrest
without clear precipitating cause
◦ i.e. – acute MI
Patients structural heart disease or genetic
conditions at a high risk for SCD.
Bi-V ICD for patients with heart failure and LBBB
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13. Defibrillators – Pacing capabilities
ICD patients:
◦ Majority do not have pacing indications
VVI 40
No pacing on baseline ECG
◦ Most patients that do have pacing indications will
have BiV ICD implanted
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14. Implantable Defibrillators (1989-2003)
209 cc 120 cc 80 cc 80 cc 72 cc 54 cc
62 cc 49 cc 39.5 cc 39.5 cc 36 cc
83% size reduction since 1989!
38 cc39.5 cc
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15. NON- Magnet
Magnet = VOO
Magnet Operation
Pacemakers
•Asynchronous Pacing
•Magnet Response at ERI
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20. Pacemakers:
◦ Potential deleterious effects of asynchronous pacing
Potential pro-arrhythmic effect
May have significant impact in patients with depressed
LV function and CRT
Defibrillators:
◦ Inadvertently leaving tachy therapies OFF
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22. Effective communication between CIED and
operative team
Current complex digital transmission of
programming signals
◦ EMI/Reset/Phantom reprogramming - no longer a
concern.
Most patients will not need a de novo
preoperative evaluation
◦ If information needed if in the records of the CIED clinic.
We strongly support the prior HRS
recommendations that industry representatives
cannot be placed in a position of medical
responsibility
◦ not to say that an IEAP cannot assist with the technical
part of that evaluation as long as the IEAP is under the
supervision of a physician experienced in CIED
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23. Pacemaker/AICD response to EMI:
1. Temporary or permanent resetting to a backup pacing mode.
2. Temporary or permanent inhibition of pacemaker output.
3. Increase in pacing rate (rate-responsive PMs).
4. AICD inappropriate shock.
5. Myocardial injury at the lead tip: failure to sense or capture.
Sources:
1. Electrocautery
2. Radiofrequency ablation
3. MRI (contraindicated!)
4. Radiation therapy
5. ECT
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24. 1. Cautery tool and current return pad are
positioned so the current pathway does not
pass through or near the CIED pulse
generator and leads;
2. Avoiding proximity of the cautery's electrical
field to the pulse generator or leads;
3. Using short, intermittent, and irregular
bursts at the lowest feasible energy levels;
4. Using a bipolar electrocautery system or an
ultrasonic (harmonic) scalpel if possible.
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25. • Infrequent
• More commonly caused by therapeutic ionizing radiation
• Rarely reported after exposure to electrosurgery
• Direct application of cautery to pulse generator
• Safety backup.
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30. Pre-op and post-op
evaluation/reprogramming for every patient.
Ophtalmology
Thoracic
Neurosurgery
Shoulder/arm surgery
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31. Pacemakers
◦ Dependent patients
Below umbilicus: no changes necessary
Above umbilicus:
Careful use of cautery / patches application
Use of magnet
◦ Non-dependent patients
No changes: unless close to pulse generator/leads
Careful monitoring as patients may become dependent
during procedure
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32. Defibrillators
◦ What is the response to magnets?
◦ Dependency: absolute or functional?
◦ Tachytherapies
Disable by using magnet
◦ Brady
Program if surgery above umbilicus and patient is
dependent
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