Authors: Edafe EA, Okoro TEO, Akpa MR, Stanley CN.
A pacemaker patient who takes cardiac medication must be informed of the possible drug interaction. Medication effect on pacemaker function could lead to increase or decrease threshold. The pacemaker output should be programmed to allow an adequate pacing margin of safety. The objective of this review article was to discuss the effects of cardiac medications on pacemaker threshold.
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