98 Stratos LV/LV-T Technical Manual

2.14.6 Maximum Activity Rate

Regardless of the sensor signal amplitude, the pacing rate during sensor-driven operation will never exceed the programmed maximum activity rate (MAR). The maximum activity rate only limits the pacing rate during sensor-driven operation and is independent of the rate limit. The rate increase and rate decrease parameters are upper rate limited by the MAR and lower rate limited by the basic rate (night rate) (MAR, standard setting 120 ppm, programmable: 90 ppm… (5) …180 ppm).

The pacing rate is determined by the highest rate from the parameters of rate adaptation, the overdrive rate and the post-AES rate.

2.14.7 Rate Decay

The “rate decay” is set to a standard value of 0.5 ppm/cycle and is programmable (0.25… (0.25)…1.25 ppm/cycle).

The programmed rate decrease setting applies only to the decrease in pacing rate during sensor-driven operation and does not affect the pacing rate during atrial triggered ventricular pacing.

2.15 Sensor Stimulation

Even when a non-rate adaptive mode is programmed, the behavior of the sensor is recorded if a rate-adaptive mode has been selected in the Mode Switching mode. The rate-adaptive mode is only effective in Mode Switching. The sensor stimulation indicates how a sensor would have reacted with the displayed sensor setting if a rate-adaptive mode had been programmed.

This function is helpful to find the optimum sensor settings and to compare the sensor rate with the intrinsic rate. When rate adaptation is activated, sensor data are available that can be used to evaluate the sensor behavior.

NOTE:

In the sensor stimulation, only values for the sensor threshold that are greater than those used for the permanent program maybe selected.