It was reported that this cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (crt-d) exhibited high out of range pacing impedance spikes on the right atrial (ra) lead, measuring greater than 2000 ohms.Noise and oversensing occurred as well.The patient's ra lead was a non-bsc product.In addition, the patient received inappropriate anti-tachycardia pacing (atp) due to atrial flutter.The rhythm alternated between a 2:1 and 3:1 conduction, which caused the right ventricular (rv) rate to become unstable.The rhythm was in the vt-1 zone and therapy for that zone was exhausted after 5 atp bursts.The device was reprogrammed and the atp bursts were increased from 5 to 10.This crt-d system remains in service.No adverse patient effects were reported.
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