Study finds lasting, reliable performance for wireless pacemaker

Medical Xpress July 30, 2024
Weill Cornell Medical College

A dual-chamber wireless pacemaker provides reliable performance over three months, bolstering evidence for this new pacemaker option, according to results from a multi-center, international clinical trial co-led by a Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigator.

The results, published July 8 in Circulation, showed that the two tiny pieces of this wireless pacemaker system reliably communicate, achieving the goal of synchronizing contraction of the upper and lower heart chambers 98% of the time. The research team, including Dr. James Ip, professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiac electrophysiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, also found that the device continued to work well when patients engaged in various activities or when their heart rates were elevated.