Accent® RF Pacemaker

The Accent RF pacemaker is designed to enhance patient safety, improve clinic efficiencies and deliver tailored therapy.

Enhanced Safety and Reliability

Daily remote monitoring and follow-up are designed to provide earlier detection of clinical events.

• Remote monitoring technology enables the transmission of patient data, daily, to clinicians
  
• Remote alerts through Merlin.net PCN provides physicians with more timely notification of changes in device and patient disease status
  
• Programmable, audible alerts via Merlin.net PCN can notify patients to any arrhythmia or device changes
  
• Industry-leading longevity of 9 years* is supported by a seven-year warranty¹
  

Improved Clinic Efficiencies

Daily remote monitoring provides key diagnostic information automatically.

• Automatic, hands-free remote follow-up via the Merlin@home^® transmitter supports clinic efficiencies while promoting patient compliance
  
• Interactive DirectCall^® Message voice response system eliminates the need for routine follow-up calls
  
• Comprehensive diagnostics, available through Merlin.net PCN, may replace the need for routine office visits

Proven TailoredTherapy^TM Features

Flexible programmability delivers optimal therapy based on patient needs.

• SenseAbility^® technology provides programming flexibility for accurate sensing over a wide range of atrial and ventricular signals by adjusting during every beat
  
• Ventricular Intrinsic Preference (VIP^®**) is proven² to reduce unnecessary RV pacing—which has been shown to reduce the risk of heart failure^3,4—while supporting the ventricle for every non-conducted beat, to promote AV synchrony
  
• Ventricular AutoCapture™ Pacing System addresses changing thresholds by automatically controlling pacing amplitude and monitoring ventricular capture with every pacing pulse
  
• AF Suppression™** technology is clinically proven to suppress episodes of paroxysmal and persistent AF⁵

* With stored electrograms turned on 
** Not avaialable in the Accent SR RF single-chamber pacemaker
¹From internal bench testing, data on file.
² Hannah G et al. Reduction of ventricular pacing in pacemaker patients using Ventricular Intrinsic Preference: preliminary results from the VIP trial. Europace Supplement, July 2008.
³ Wilkoff BL, Cook JR, Epstein E, et al. DAVID Investigators. Dual-Chamber Pacing or Ventricular Backup Pacing in Patients With an Implantable Defibrillator. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002. 288 (24): 3115-3123.
⁴ Olshansky B, Day JD, Moore S, et al. Is Dual-Chamber Programming Inferior to Single-Chamber Programming in an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator? Results of the INTRINSIC RV (Inhibition of Unnecessary RV Pacing With AVSH in ICDs) Study. Circulation 2007. 115: 9-16.
⁵ Carlson M, Ip J, et al. A new pacemaker algorithm for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, results of the atrial dynamic overdrive pacing trial (ADOPT). Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2003:42:626-633.