Title: Minimizing ventricular pacing, part 2: The SAVE-PACe trial

Presentor(s)	M.O. Sweeney, Boston (US)
Episode	15
Year	2007
Duration	29:22

Shownotes    Recent studies, such as MOST sub-study, have proven that unnecessary right ventricular apical pacing is deleterious. There are also physiologic bases showing adverse effects of RVA pacing on cardiac mechanics. Today, techniques are available to minimize undesired RVA pacing and SAVE-PACe, a prospective randomized study, tested the hypothesis that minimizing RVA pacing would have clinical benefit in Sinus Node Disease patients. The results have shown that minimizing RVA pacing led to 40 % reduction in relative risk of developing persistent AF.