Victory pacemakers are designed to promote more natural heart function, allowing the patient’s own heart rhythm to prevail when possible by reducing the device’s ventricular pacing using ‘smart pacing’ technology. Called Ventricular Intrinsic Preference (VIP), this technology actively monitors the heart on a beat-by-beat basis to provide pacing only when it is needed, which has been shown to be better for patients’ overall heart health, the company said.
The Victory pacemakers, which are fully compatible with the St Jude Medical Merlin patient care system, report all patient data in one concise ‘summary screen’, which helps physicians interpret diagnostic information so they can program devices for individual patient needs.
Paul Bond, chairman of St Jude Medical Japan, said: “Victory pacemakers offer significant advantages for patients and clinicians in Japan, including smart pacing technology that allows patients’ hearts to beat on their own when possible and a more streamlined process for implant and follow-up procedures. Victory pacemakers were designed to provide physicians with the information they need to make better-informed decisions for their patient care.”