Observational study recording of His bundle electrograms
Research type
Research Study
Full title
High fidelity recording of His bundle electrograms for development of His specific algorithm
IRAS ID
261407
Contact name
Paul Foley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The Great Western Hospital
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN14600175
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 7 months, 1 days
Research summary
Nowadays, pacemakers can work out how well the pacemaker is working, and make appropriate changes to the function automatically, so that it is rare that patients need to attend hospital to check how well the pacemaker is functioning.
In the last 5 to 10 years, we have begun to pace the normal electrical conducting system - which helps the heart function better than the older method. However, the electrical signals received by the pacemaker are very different and we need to try and characterise the signals so that the pacemakers can learn to recognise them on future generations of pacemakers.
We plan to store the signals we receive during routine pacemaker implants, and during follow up for later analysis.
REC name
West Midlands - Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/WM/0065
Date of REC Opinion
11 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion