…Whether electrosurgery or diathermy will be used. Whether monopolar or bipolar electrocautery is planned. The operative site in relation to the pulse generator and the

…artifact is larger in unipolar pacing, as compared with bipolar pacing. The latter yields a discrete stimulation artifact, which may be visible in one or…

…will discuss the ECG leads in detail and no prior knowledge is required. Note that the terms unipolar leads and bipolar leads are not recommended…

…and thus inappropriate pacemaker activity. As discussed in the previous chapter, the delivery of pacing pulses can be bipolar or unipolar. Sensing can also be…

…unipolar pacemakers yield larger stimulation artifacts on ECG (Figure 4). In bipolar pacing, the anode and cathode are both located within the heart and the…