Pacemaker

Pacemakers: Generating regular heartbeats
Your natural pacemaker - a small mass of cells located in your heart's upper chamber - normally runs like clockwork.
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Pacemaker, artificial: A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm.
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Pacemaker Monitoring Program, Pediatric
What is the Pacemaker Monitoring Program?
How will we know if the Pacemaker is malfunctioning?
Is the Monitoring Program available day and night?
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The mechanical pacemaker would therefore act only as a back-up, to start functioning if and when the biological implant failed.
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Pacemakers, including biventricular pacemakers (resynchronization therapy) Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), a treatment sometimes used for heart failure ...
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PacemakerAn electrical device that has electrodes attached to the heart to electrically stimulate the heart to beat normally.
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Pacemakers are also used to treat this sort of dangerous fast heart rhythm. They act by sensing the abnormal electrical stimuli in the heart and overriding them, sometimes by delivering a tiny electrical shock within the heart.
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Pacemaker, Defibrillator Reliability Can Be Improved
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Spacemaker SAPHtrak balloon dissection system Creates a working space for minimally invasive harvesting of the saphenous vein for use as a graft in coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and peripheral vascular bypass procedures. Mfg: U.S.
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A pacemaker is an implanted device that regulates your heartbeat electronically. It monitors your heart's rhythm and, when necessary, it generates a painless electric impulse , that triggers a heartbeat.
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A pacemaker may be needed if there is symptomatic involvement of the conduction system.
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A pacemaker is a battery-powered device that sends signals to the heart to help it beat properly. Tune in to find out more about these life-saving devices.
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A pacemaker programmed to stimulate the heart to beat at a rapid rate (faster than 100 beats per minute) may increase blood pressure for some people.
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Artificial Pacemakers (Pacemakers)
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If you are having an MRI or MRA, talk with the technical staff about any implanted devices—such as heart pacemakers, intrauterine devices (IUDs), hip replacements, and implanted ports for catheterization— ...
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inner ear [cochlear] implants, brain aneurysm clips, some artificial heart valves, pacemakers, older vascular stents) are not compatible with MRI.
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The SA node, the natural pacemaker of the heart, starts the electrical signals and transmits them to the AV node.
The AV node then activates the bundle of His and its branches, resulting in contraction of the ventricles.
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Will he need a pacemaker?
Answer: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heart rhythm disturbance where the top heart chambers, called atria, are stimulated to contract in a shallow, rapid and chaotic manner.
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Sinus tachycardia is due to rapid firing of a normal structure called the sinoatrial (sinus) node which is the natural pacemaker of the heart.
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The seriousness of the infarction is dependent upon the amount of heart muscle affected, how long the area is deprived of blood, and whether it affects the natural pacemaker of the heart, setting off arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation.
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Very high blood pressure needs to be treated carefully, as it may behave quite unpredictably and fall abruptly. If symptoms do not improve with medications, a pacemaker may be required.
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not approved as a screening device for breast cancer, and is not used when mammography or other findings clearly indicate the need for a biopsy. This device has not been studied with patients who have implanted electronic devices, such as pacemakers.
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Diathermy has been considered inappropriate for anyone with a pacemaker or another implanted device containing metal, including the copper IUD.
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