We report a case of an 83-year-old woman who deliberately tampered with the pacemaker's placement site. We diagnosed this as Reel syndrome from clinical course. We wrapped a generator in a polytetrafluoroethylene sheet and affixed it to the large pectoral muscle at multiple points, other than...
Pacemaker.This small device can sense a rapid heartbeat and be programmed to send an electrical signal to help the heart return to normal. Your doctor would implant it under your skin. Catheter ablation.Sometimes, the cause of your racing pulse may be an extra electrical pathway in the heart...
the technology is generally acceptable fordetermining body composition over an extended period of time. Note that if you are pregnant or have an electrical implant such as pacemaker or defibrillator you shouldn't use a scale with bioelectrical impedance...
Human energy harvesting is envisioned as a remedy to the weight, the size, and the poor energy density of primary batteries in medical implants. The first implant to have necessarily raised the idea of a biological power supply was the pacemaker in the early 1960s. So far, review articles ...
Cardiac output that is dependent on right to left shunt through the PDA due to pulmonary hypertension; Intracardiac thrombus that may interfere with the implant procedure; Active infection requiring treatment at the time of implant; Patients with a PDA length smaller than 3 mm; Patients with...
Physicians need to be aware of the risk and possible interaction between a neurostimulation system and an implanted cardiac system, such as a pacemaker or defibrillator. Electrical pulses from a neurostimulation system may interact with the sensing operation of an implanted cardiac system, causing t...
While functioning like a normal pacemaker to treat slow heart rhythms, a CRT-P device also delivers small electrical impulses to the left and right ventricles to help them contract at the same time so your heart pumps more efficiently.
Pinter performs the implant surgery in his workshop in rural Kentucky. Both Singer and Pinter were reluctant to give a lot of details about the procedure. As Pinter put it, "...it's not really legal in the strictest sense of the word." But we were able to talk to them about some ...
aIn the Netherlands, many pacemaker clinics use a computer to store their implant and follow-up data in a database. Still, there are quite a number of clinics that only use their computer for word processing. In order to improve the accuracy of the received data, we developed a data ...
pacemaker on my recommendation. The pacemaker implantation was complicated. She became delirious from the drugs used perioperatively. The lead was dislodged twice, requiring lead reimplantation, but she was discharged after a week to 10 days in the hospital and then 6 weeks in a nursing home. ...