This case report is kindly provided by Michael Rosengarten from McGill and is part of the McGill Cases. These cases come from the McGill EKG World Encyclopedia.
This is a PA chest x-ray of a patient with a pacing system dysfunction.This is a magnified view of the pacemaker.This is a further close-up of the pacemaker wires in the area of the junction of the clavicle and first rib.The pacing threshold in a bipolar mode with the patient lying down. The resistance was 2,800 ohms.The pacing threshold in a bipolar mode with the patient sitting. The lead resistance was 1,140 ohms.The pacing threshold in a unipolar mode.
