Sources include lead fracture/insulation failure (intermittent, often correlated with patient movement), myopotential oversensing (skeletal muscle electrical activity, particularly with unipolar sensing configurations), and external electromagnetic interference — each has characteristic signal patterns on interrogation that help localize the cause before assuming a true arrhythmia occurred.
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