[Home monitoring of an incessant VT in an ICD patient].

Due to the increasing number of patients and complexity of modern tachycardia devices, efficient therapy monitoring as offered by telemedicine monitoring is of increasing importance. The potential advantages of remote control for patient management include early detection of device-related technical problems and arrhythmias. We report the case of an ICD patient with incessant ventricular tachycardia in whom immediate arrhythmia transmission was monitored by remote control.

Iterative cardiac output measurement for optimizing cardiac resynchronization therapy: a randomized, blinded, crossover study.

Background: Many invasive and noninvasive methods have been proposed for guiding optimal programming of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices. However, results are not satisfying. Preliminary results suggest that cardiac output (CO) measurements using inert gas rebreathing (IGR) might be an eligible method to tailor atrioventricular (AV) and ventriculo-ventricular (VV) programming.