Determining electrical capture when using an external cardiac pacemaker is often difficult
and confusing, especially when the resulting clinical signs of an effective blood pressure …

Determining ventricular capture when using transcutaneous pacing (TCP) can be difficult.
Our objective was to evaluate the use of ultrasound (US) to determine capture in patients …

Transcutaneous cardiac pacing is a temporary treatment of hemodynamically unstable
bradycardias. However, the rhythmic skeletal muscle contractions that occur during external …

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a safe diagnostic tool that clinicians use to rapidly
evaluate critically ill patients. 1 POCUS has expanded into the prehospital setting and has …

Clinical confirmation of mechanical capture in emergency transcutaneous pacing is
sometimes difficult because of weak pulse volume or interference from skeletal muscle …

Study Objective: We describe 9 patients who underwent ultrasound-guided transvenous
cardiac pacing in which ultrasonographic imaging was used to assist and confirm the …

During an 18-month period we prospectively studied 36 emergency department patients
who had a transvenous pacing catheter placed without fluoroscopic or ECG guidance during …

Temporary transvenous cardiac pacing is a life-saving procedure in an emergency.
Transvenous cardiac pacing catheterization guided by intracavitary electrocardiogram (IC …

Transcutaneous cardiac pacing holds promise as the initial cardiac pacing technique for
emergency patients. Determination of the extent of myocardial injury associated with the use …

Although electrical energy has the potential to produce myocardial injury, the risk of tissue
damage from transcutaneous cardiac pacing is largely unknown. This study reports the …