In the past, pacemaker insertion was the only way to correct heart irregularities. However, the use of pacemakers has been reduced due to the introduction of electrophysiology. Electrophysiologists also perform other surgical procedures, such as cardiac ablation and drug therapy to help manage arrhythm...
The advent of small memory chips with very low power consumption, coupled with advances in radiofrequency telemetry, has enabled implantable cardiac pacemakers to become diagnostic as well as therapeutic devices. Different types of devices are available. The simplest type merely indicates whether or ...
Cardiologist, discusses how different pacemakers work. 120649 Views Video transcript Featuring Dr. Kevin Pistawka, MD, FRCSC, Cardiologist Duration: 1 minute, 51 seconds This is a single chamber pacemaker. It’s got a single wire. It’s a relatively basic function. It paces the heart at ...
Medical/Dental:Platinum's inherent chemical inactivity and biocompatibility makes it valuable for manufacturing various drugs and pharmaceutical products, as well as medical devices such as heart pacemakers and artificial body parts. The platinum protects these parts against corrosion. ...
After a few years of development, Greatbatch's invention was installed in its first human patient in 1960, curing his heart block in a way that had never before been possible. Later, Greatbatch also invented the long-life lithium battery that would power the pacemakers for longer. His accident...
Cymbalyuk, G. S., E. V. Nikolaev and R. M. Borisyuk. 1994. In-phase and antiphase self-oscillations in a model of two electrically coupled pacemakers.Biol. Cybern.71, 153–160. ArticleMATHGoogle Scholar Damasio, A. R. 1989. The brain binds entities and events by multiregional activatio...
Consequently, radiotherapists will treat a higher amount of cancer patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) in their departments and there is still lack of exact knowledge about the effects of radiation on pacemakers (PM) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD). In 1994...
assignment to the first and a second location assignment to the second pace pulse using at least in part the polarity information about the first and second pace pulses, wherein the first and second location assignments represent the different locations of the heart at which the first and second...
Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers:Influence of respiratory instability during neurocardiogenic presyncope on cerebrovascular and cardiovascular dynamics Objective: To analyse the influence of breathing activity on cerebrovascular dynamics during presyncope. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: University h.....
Dual chamber pacemakers are recognized to have a greater capacity for optimum physiologic stimulation of the heart than single chamber devices, for many patients. However, dual chamber systems conventionally require implantation of two intracardiac leads, which has long been widely viewed as an obstacle...