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During the past 20 yearsnational 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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