Heart operation pacemaker
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A pacemaker is a small device that sends electrical impulses to the heart muscle to maintain a suitable heart rate and rhythm. A pacemaker may also be used to treat fainting spells (syncope), congestive heart failure, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A pacemaker implant is more for assurance of good, normal heartbeat than a remedy for heart failure.
hi, finally the doctor said i should go for a pacemaker dual chamber as my heart is missing beats and slow. can those who already went for this type of operation share their experience with me please. and can you tell me if it does cost a lot, is there any complication after operation? is there any thing i should know? will my life be back to normal? as now i can't even work!!!
Please help us to find an answer! My husband had a pacemaker implanted 6 weeks ago. The doctors implanted the wrong type (not MRI compatible) and now they tell us that they are willing to replace it! How dangerous is it? The leads are more likely to have grown into the heart tissue by now. We are very afraid of this operation!
A low heart rate can cause fainting and a too heart rate can create irregular heartbeats. I assume it is a pacemakers that you reference. It is used to treat heart rhythms that are too slow, fast, or irregular. Pacemakers can relieve some symptoms related to irregular heartbeats. It can help your father who has an abnormal heart rhythm have some assurance of a stable heart rate.
The left ventricle may be enlarged as a condition subsequent to the valve operation. If the heart is under stress, it will enlarge to compensate...as your doctor states an enlarged heart can cause irregular heartbeats. A pacemaker may be an option to consider as it should/will stabilize the heart rate and provide peace of mind.
You have suffered a great injustice, and I'm sorry for your experience. I do not know what the black substance was, or what the results of exposure may be. However, the skipped beats may be caused simply by confusion in the heart muscle itself.
Your heart cells are all capable of contracting and causing the heart to beat. Usually, this job is segregated to specific cells that most people refer to as the "natrual pacemaker.
Until the day God has set aside for you. A pacemaker will ensure your heart works to the correct rhythm and rate and you will live to your natural age of death. It is a fix. So dont start worrying about that because you will get stressed and become ill again. I wish you a good long and healthy life.
Wondering if anyone has or would consider developing a Droid APP for Medtronics Pacer/Defibers. I have a BiV-ICD and live alone. With the advent of smart phones, I've done away with a land line and so the telephone checkups are no longer an option. I know my unit broadcasts a signal at certain times, because my old heart in-home monitor only needed to be within 50 ft or so to pick up my pacer signal.
I don't know if Yoga could regulate the way the heart beats. However, I doubt it very much. I would think your father would be placed in great danger if the pacemaker wasn't replaced. His body is used to the pacemaker, and it would probably react poorly if it weren't working.
Are you the Dr even if his HR drops to 26 or lower only once a month he stills needs a pacemaker. You can recover from death and you cant repair brain damage or organ damage from lack of oxygen to them. It just takes one really bad HR day to cause irrpairable damage or death.
So yes I do think not having the pacemaker is risking his life and while you want to help him maintain his job and life he has a better chance with the pacemaker than with out.
If people have side effects to the medications, sometimes the best option is to place a pacemaker and do a simple procedure (AV node ablation) that makes you pacemaker dependent. That why the pacemaker is in full control of the heart rate and the medication doses can be decreased. I have noticed that older women are often the ones that have the most medications side effects with atrial fibrillation and are more frequently the patients that end up with a pacemaker.
Do you have heart failure? Putting in a pacemaker is a big deal so it would seem wise to me to seek a second opinion. As well if you are tolerating the low rate without much symptoms and your syncope is indeed solely in response to environment then really follow what your gut is telling you. If you feel super uncomfortable about having a pacemaker put in then take some time to really think it through.
CS, I agree with the above poster, as I have an ICD implanted, which also has a built in pacemaker. I'm only 46, but I've had two heart attacks. Anyway, one of the first things I asked my doctor, since if I "drop dead" from sudden cardiac death, the defibrillator will go off, and restart my heart. But I asked him, ok, so what happens when I'm 85 or 90, and it is "my time to go", but the damn ICD will keep kicking in.
1, which means that every other heart beat originating from the natural pacemaker of the heart (the sinus node) was getting through the atrioventricular node (AV node), the single electrical connection from the top of the heart to the bottom of the heart. This means that the actual heart rate and cardiac output was decreased.
Without seeing your child’s ECG and evaluating your child, I cannot give you specific information.
I always thought that if nerves to the heart function were severed, i.e. the heart is working all alone, then the rate would increase, not decrease. I thought if a human heart for example was beating in a lab using only its built in pacemaker, it would run at around 100 bpm? The vagus nerve is responsible for the parasympathetic system, which slows the heart down. So if cut, your heart should speed up?
Was it a Doctor who told you the nerve may have been damaged?
It was the most horrifying experience I have ever gone through as the lidocaine had absolutely no effect and versed does not work on me so I had full feeling of surgery from the initial incision to the creation of the pocket into my muscle and placement of the pacemaker. My heart rate and blood pressure had been dropping to critical levels. A BP of 60/40 at night and a heart rate in the low to mid thirties was commonplace.
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