User Manual

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What is Home Monitoring?
Dear Patient:
You have received a BIOTRONIK pacemaker
or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
(ICD) with Home Monitoring function.
Home Monitoring pacemakers and ICDs are
additionally equipped with a special
transmitter. This transmitter automatically
transmits medical and technical information
to a mobile device, the CardioMessenger.
The CardioMessenger works like a cell
phone and automatically transmits the
information received from your implant as
encoded messages to the BIOTRONIK
Service Center.
The transmission power from your implant
is low so as to not impair your health in any
way. Since the transmission range is short,
the CardioMessenger is needed to send the
information to the BIOTRONIK Service
Center.
At the Service Center, the data are
processed and can be viewed only by your
physician on a secured Internet site in the
form of a comprehensive report called a
Cardio Report.
Your doctor can use this Cardio Report to
decide whether your implant settings need
to be updated or if your therapy plan needs
to be changed. Thus, Home Monitoring
serves as a practical diagnostic aid.
CardioMessenger.book Page 3 Tuesday, May 2, 2006 5:05 PM