At St. Jude Medical, understanding our customers’ needs is our number one priority. After countless hours spent in your workspace, we embarked on a collaborative effort to design a patient care system tailored to your specific needs. The result is the Merlin Patient Care System.
Manage High DFT Patients More Easily
- Pulse width programming information is available on-screen for Promote® CRT-Ds and Current® ICDs
Pulse width information is now displayed on the PCS screen, eliminating the need to look up the value on the pulse width recommendation chart
Reduce Unnecessary RV Pacing
Recent studies have suggested that RV pacing is linked to risk of worsening heart failure1 and increased atrial fibrillation.2 The VIP® feature allows intrinsic conduction while providing back-up pacing for every non-conducted beat.
AV delay can be extended up to 450 ms using the VIP® feature in the Zephyr™ and Victory® and all subsequent pacemakers and ICDs including Unify™ and Fortify™ devices, allowing more opportunity for the patient's intrinsic rhythm to emerge.
Additional Features
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FastPath® Summary - giving you report flexibility and making it easy for you to navigate quickly and efficiently
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Intuitive and easy-to-use system - making it simple to conduct patient follow-ups, even for the first-time user
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Flexible platform - designed to meet the clinicians’ needs of today and the patient care needs of tomorrow
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Printed report export - allowing you to export PDF files of printed reports
- One button Aquire All - making it simple to acquire real time sense and impedance measurements with the press of one button
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Demo mode - allowing quick and simple demonstration of the device features and capabilities
1 Wilkoff B et al. Dual-chamber pacing or ventricular backup pacing in patients with an implantable defibrillator. The DAVID Trial. JAMA 2002; 288:3115-3123.
2 Sweeney M, Hellkamp A, Greenspon A et al. Baseline QRS duration =120 ms and cumulative percent time ventricular paced predicts increased risk of heart failure, stroke, and death in DDDR-paced patients with sick sinus syndrome in MOST. [abstract] Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 2002; 25:690.