[The French pacemaker register]

The European ID card is the basis for the national registers of pacemaker wearers. The French register, dating from 1986, currently groups 2/3 of implantations or replacements performed each year in France. Year to year comparisons allow measurement of the indications for implanting and the equipment implanted, pacemakers as well as electrode probes. This allows an epidemiological approach which is particularly important since the advent of new equipment and new techniques such as multisite pacing. Within the framework of equipment surveillance and pacing surveillance, the French register could also lead to an important role.