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Global Cardiovascular Strategies
THE REGISTRY OF THE EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP ON CARDIAC PACING (EWGCP)
Hugo Ector, Belgium
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
Proceedings on 14th International Congress
THE "NEW FRONTIERS" OF ARRHYTHMIAS 2000
During the past 20 years national registration centres started collecting the national data. The results are centralized, so that a European survey can be constructed for every year. All contributors receive a complete set of the data: for their own information and for possible corrections.The data are also presented on the website of the EWGCP. Access to the data is limited by the requirement to obtain a password from A.F. Rickards.
Collection of data is based on the European Pacemaker Patient Identification Card, with its first design in July 1978. The card offers appropriate codes for symptoms, ECG indications, etiology, pacing mode, generator and lead changes, file closure. Questionnaires are sent out every year to the national registration centers. They probe for information about demographic data, numbers of devices implanted, symptoms at initial implant, ECG indications, pacing modes versus indication, rate responsive systems, etiology, explantation of leadsand generators, lead extractions. In recent years also data on ICD’s and ablations are collected.
The major features of our registry have been published in abstracts4-6. This paper deals with the data of 1996 and 1997.
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