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 ...

Installing a pacemaker isn't as complicated as you might imagine and it isn't draining for the patient. A pacemaker consists of a generator - a battery-powered unit about the size of a thin stopwatch.

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Cherian*, an octogenarian, was a post by-pass surgery patient, who also underwent a stent implantation. He later developed a stent re-block which was opened again with a new technology called drug ...

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 ...

Children as young as seven years who have undergone surgery to repair congenital heart defect have been reported to have twidder’s syndrome after pacemaker or defibrillator placement.