heart pacemaker surgery procedure

However, after the surgery she has still been kept on pacemaker as cardiologists said her heart rate is still on 48-55 per minute (which is quite slow). The cardiologists have suggested that if the heart rate does not return back to normal a permanent pacemaker maybe required. Can anyone please suggest whether to wait for the heart beat to be back to normal or go for the pacemaker. Thanks in advance for the help.

Replacing the 2 wire pacemaker with the 3 wire pacemaker is a surgery. My mom had this done and it was more than she expected, so it would be wise to wait as your doctor recommended the 5 months.

//www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/pacemaker-for-atrial-fibrillation "People with atrial fibrillation may need a pacemaker for a variety of reasons. These reasons include: You have atrial fibrillation that comes and goes. And you have a fast heart rate when you are in atrial fibrillation and a slow heart rate when you are not in atrial fibrillation. This is called tachy-brady syndrome. You had an AV node ablation procedure that destroyed the AV node in your heart.

Low energy. Should I undergoe a full maze procedure (little confidence) or a pacemaker. My heart rate is usually low 40's when not in tachycardia. Would my ventrical beat keep me alive if pacemaker failed. Is this risky?

In general at our institution the immediate risks are of lung collapse, bleeding in the pocket or around the heart requiring pericadiocentesis ( draining of the blood around the heart) or open heart surgery. This is very rare, occurring less than 1/1000 patients. Long term consequences include infection of the device or leads, requirement of long term follow up. It is generally a very well tolerated procedure and quite safe especially if performed by an electrophysiologist.

I just found out thaqt I am now considered pace maker dependent and that I need my pace maker replaces sometime soon. What happens during surgery? Does my heart stop or at risk or stopping when the doctor is transitioning from my old pace maker to my new one. i am 70 years old and scared of the relacement process.

Yes, that's exactly what it amounts to. A friend of mine had it done, but I had the sneaky suspicion - and still do - that they screwed up his ablation and now the pacemaker has to provide the heartbeat completely and not only when needed.

February 29, 2012, I had my second ablation and the doctor stopped burnings six hours into the procedure because he discovered that there were so many different arrythmias that he did not want to continue burning my heart. This procedure took 8 hours and 4 days in the hospital to be monitored. I feel worse after the second surgery. I have been told that a pacemaker will not help this condition and I am very hesitant to have the "maze" surgery.

when I was last in hospital, an 87 year old man in the bed next to me had a pacemaker fitted. Before the procedure, he could hardly walk, even using a frame, and was always panting/going dizzy. Within one day of the procedure he was walking without the frame and wasn't panting. His colour returned to normal and I was totally shocked and blown away by the transformation.

So the procedure would be to snip both ends, cap them and sew them down, and then implant the new lead in another spot close by. In that procedure you do not have to have open heart surgery. It's much like the original surgery where you get the pacemaker. They go in through the original scar site and fix everything and finish up. The doc said that she would have this is different because you would need full access to the heart, hence the open heart part.

After bypass surgery the pacemaker wires are attached to the heart and the other end is hanging out of the chest. The pacemaker is temporarily attached externally if required. There is no internal PM and no pocket.

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.

My Dad has various heart issues. He has had bypass surgery about 15 years ago. Since then he has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Today, he was scheduled for surgery to remove some colon polyps. Just as they put him under the anesthesia, his resting heart rate dropped to 30 bpm. He was barely under as this happened (he said that he could hear them start to talk about it). They did not end up doing the surgery and he was awake about a half hour later.

After bypass surgery they leave a wire temporarily hanging out of the chest, attached to the heart, in case there are rhythm problems. Heart surgery is very traumatic for the organ and it just needs a little while to recover. It's great that his heart has gone from 10-36% though, in just a week.

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!

While and ICD implant is a procedure, it is not really surgery. And ICD is typically placed on one day and pt goes home the next. Usually no anesthesia is needed. Risk is very minimal. 2. If your ejection fraction is low, the ICD will serve as an "insurance policy"--ie hopefully you'll never need it but you'd be sure glad you had it if your heart "tried to die" on you 3.

I have been diagnosed with 3rd degree congenital heart block. I am 38, my heart rate avg is 45, went as low as 35 and can go as high as 109-120 when on a stress treadmill. I have no enlargement of the heart. I have never fainted, but I definitely feel fatigued, occasionally slightly dizzy, and have postural hypotension often. My ep is currently NOT recommending a pacemaker, but would put one in if I chose to anyway...and says he'd like to do echos yearly to watch me close.

Another option that sounds like has been presented to you is where part of the electrical wiring of the heart is ablated and a pacemaker is placed. This is reserved for when heart rate control becomes a big issue.

I had a halter monitor test done by my PCP and they said they recorded several pauses. One that was 9.5 seconds, one 6 seconds and two 3 seconds. I was referred to a cardiologist who recommended a pacemaker. What are the odds that in that 24 hour halter test there are 4 pauses but now my pacemaker has not recorded any in an 8 month period? I also did not have tachycardia until after the pacemaker implantation.

All surgeries have some risk, but I think catheter surgery (done with catheters through an artery) are among the lest dangerous. You didn't say why you are considering surgery. If the "problem" is minor you may want to consider living with it rather than take any risk. Talk it over with your doctor. The worst I've read that I think can be a bad outcome of sinus node surgery is the sinus node shuts down and one then has to have a pacemaker implanted.

Immediately prior to the pacemaker implant, the heart rate drops were occurring several times per week. Getting my pacemaker properly adjusted was very difficult and I changed Cardio EPs three times, involving very much of trial and error on their part. I've read that 2nd degree, type 2 can eventually become 3rd degree and a complete heart block. Complete heart block can cause sudden cardiac death. That is why I agreed to the pacemaker implant.

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One of the common complications that we see in these patients is sinus node dysfunction, or abnormal function of the natural pacemaker of the heart. This is due to the large amount of surgery and scar tissue near the sinus node, which can certainly occur with an intracardiac version of the Fontan. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see heart rates this low in patients after a Fontan. At this point, the most important fact is that she is asymptomatic.

My 1st clear memory is ICU 3 days later with a doctor saying sign a consent for a pacemaker or I could die. Obviously, I signed. A week later, I had emergency surgery for a dropped heart lead. I now have chronic shortness of breath, chest pain and can't even laugh without gasping. I truly think I don't need this thing in my chest. Is there an agreed procedure for proving it (like turning the damned thing off)? There is NO cardiac history in either my or my family's history. Thanks.

DEAR DOCTOR, I have undergone 6years ago a mitral valve raplacement and..unsuccessful Maze procedure to cure my Atrial fibrilation.Maybe the left unlarged atrium,(5,3 )whas the raison for this failling procedure i don't know... I took different antyarhitmic drugs and have had some elecrtical cardioversion having only some short atrial fib event... One day i stoped the amiodarone treatment because thyreotoxicosis; Later Propafenone helped me for a while..

My pacer was inserted three years ago, and my heart rate and blood pressure rates were great afterwards. However, I had to have bypass surgery, and following the surgery my heart rate and blood pressure was hard to control. The docs contacted my pacer manufacturer and together, they found the problem. I'd strongly urge you to contact St. Judes and send them the very well worded post that you sent us, and ask them for some help. St.

m not sure if I completely understand the post either. Are you saying that the pacemaker leads captured the heart close to the coronary arteries and scar tissue (which commonly forms around the leads) is squashing the coronary arteries?

She is not a candidate for the surgery due to her other health problems.

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