The Design And Testing Of A Vapor-Deposited Carbon-Coated Titanium Pacemaker Electrode
Abstract
The occurrece of rising thresholds and exit block in artificial cardiac pacemaker therapy are thought to be due to fibrous tissue encapsulation of the implanted electrode. A vapor-deposited carbon-coated titanium electrode was made for use in pacemaker therapy. It was thought that due to the high degree of biocompatibility exhibited by pure carbonaceous materials following implantation of this electrode in the heart, threshold would remain constant. It was foudn that, in dogs with chronically induced heart block with implanted vapor-deposited carbon-wired titanium electrodes and constant rate stimulators, the threshold did indeed rise as a function of time following impantation.
Description
Program year: 1978/1979Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
artificial cardiac pacemaker therapythresholds
exit block
biocompatibility
carbonaceous materials
titanium electrodes
Citation
Frick, Elsa M. (1979). The Design And Testing Of A Vapor-Deposited Carbon-Coated Titanium Pacemaker Electrode. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -GraybealD _1990.