Overdrive Pacing

[TomB]

Now that I think about it, I have seen one case of overdrive pacing attempted. It was a few months ago when we were well into a arrest in the ED and cardio came down and did it for refractory VFib I believe. We never got capture and the patient never got ROSC.

Overdrive pacing won't work for VF. The ventricular rate is already 300-700 and the max rate for TCP is typically about 180.