What is a pacemaker? Who needs one and what to expect from surgery

A pacemaker is a small device that can send electrical signals to your heart. Here's who needs a pacemaker and how it works.
Becker's ASC

7 Steps to Implement Pacemaker Generator Insertion at an ASC

Tara Sellers, administrator of The Surgery Center of Key West (Fla.), an ASCOA facility, discusses seven steps to bring pacemaker generator insertions and changes to your surgery center. 1. Recruit a ...
The Royal Gazette

Hospital stands by pacemaker procedures

Amid allegations that an anaesthetist has been improperly inserting pacemakers into hospital patients, the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) announced yesterday that it stands behind its procedures. The ...
Times Colonist

Your Good Health: Pacemaker surgery leads to problems

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 94-year-old male. Three and a half years ago, I was able to walk with a cane, until I had a pacemaker implanted. After the procedure, I was able to walk only with a walker, and ...
Science Daily

Getting a pacemaker soon after heart valve replacement linked with worse outcomes

Patients who undergo minimally invasive heart valve replacement, known as TAVR, sometimes develop heart rhythm problems that necessitate placement of a permanent pacemaker. However, when a pacemaker ...
Indiatimes

First dual-chamber pacemaker insertion performed at CMCH

In a first, doctors of the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) performed dual-chamber pacemaker insertion in a 60-year-old patient, A Murugananthan was admitted to the hospital with ...
TCTMD

Studies Highlight Permanent Pacemaker Rates Among New-Generation TAVR Devices

PARIS, France—Two single-center studies presented last week at EuroPCR 2016 shed light on the risk of complications, specifically the need for a permanent pacemaker, among patients undergoing ...