Abstract
This report details our experience with 300 sutureless epicardial electrode implantations performed in the past 6 years. Indications for pacing, surgical approaches, implantation sites and complications are presented. The subxiphoid approach was valuable in obtaining safe, reliable, and long-term impulse generation. Complications have been few and of short duration. In general, pacing thresholds have been lower and sensitivity thresholds higher with left ventricular implantation than with right ventricular implantation. Endocarcial pacing is reserved for the very aged and debilitated patients, patients requiring implantation within 4 to 6 weeks of acute myocardial infarction, and for atrial or atrioventricular sequential pacing.
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