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In most cases, bundle branch block does not need treatment. However, there be a problem for individuals who have bundle branch block along with another heart condition that may represent a need for treatment. For example, if bundle branch block develops during a heart attack, you may need a pacemaker. After a heart attack, your heart is fragile, and bundle branch block may cause a very slow heart rhythm (bradycardia). A pacemaker will help regulate the heart's rhythm after a heart attack.

I recently had a failed ablation (due to sedation issues and proximity to the phrenic nerve) for IST and SVT and atrial flutter. They redid the ablation successfully with an epicardial balloon and general anesthesia. Fixed the SVT. Fixed the atrial flutter. And maybe over modified my sinus node for the IST. I went from going up to 210bpm at rest and NEVER under 120 to today.

To all who wished me good thoughts over my pacemaker "generator" replacement. It does sound more impressive than "battery" !! I'm told I have the very latest in technology and can now be "found" by the new system that "reads" your pacemaker without you having to "phone home" and do the telephone game; alas I had to burst the pacemaker rep's bubble and remind her that I am only near a "landline" in the winter.....

Becuase of multiple failed medication trials for afib and my junctional rhythm my EP had planned to put in a pacemaker last Fri. and then bring me back to the lab in a few months time to do an AV-Node ablation. So, I checked into the Brigham at 6am and was told to wait in the family center in the brand new Shapiro Center for Cardiovascular Excellence until the cath lab was ready for me. A short time later a man came to escort a group of us to the basement for our procedures.

Ok, I know the cardiologist says its ok, he's done hundreds and the pacemaker rep will be there and they will turn off the pacemaker and then turn it back on later, but I am still soooooo nervous. They are only going to do a 1.5 with contrast....... Should I relax? I've scanned the internet and so many articles are so old or contradict others Anyone have this done yet?

Your hear rate, take by me to be as low as 40, is quite low and is likely the basis of the comment about a pacemaker. Most people require 60 bpm and higher at rest to maintain good oxygen delivery. Some marathon athletes have rest HRs in the 40s and 50s, but the rest of us mortals don't have the powerful cardiovascular systems of these athletes. Medications to slow the HR, e.g., Beta Blockers and others, are common, but I don't know of any heart meds to raise the HR.

Pacemaker slow heart rate usually below 50bpm will pace you with very low electic shock to keep your rate from going too low. ICD large shock 25 Joules to convert too fast of a rate, usually over 150bpm.

The cardiology team decided that even if my arythmia where verry bad, it was better for me to have and ablation than a pacemaker due to the fact that need to had MRI for my brain once in a while and with a pacemaker I whould not be able to.

My 51 year old husband is going to see an electrophysiologist and I am wondering how it might affect his job if it turns out he needs a pacemaker. He is a software engineer, designing and testing the software that runs in the transmitters and receivers at the base stations of cell phone towers. (He doesn't actually work with actual cell phones for this - it is a component of the overall technology needed to establish a working cell tower).

Hi, I am a 49 year old female that had an ASD repair in 1989. I had zero problems until about four years ago, when I visited my regular doctor and he noted my resting HR was 170. He had me transported to the hospital where I was diagnosed with Atrial flutter. I have had 9 ablations in 4 years. A pacemaker impantation. At tsme my ventricular response was in the 300's.

I can only share with you that the placement of a pacemaker is not usually a huge deal. I hope it goes quickly and smoothly. Do they have him on an external pacemaker right now until the surgery? You know our love and prayers and with you and your dad.

good you ask me.. my pacemaker is set to 80beats and I'm 100% depend on my pacemaker.. i have a Medtronic this my 2nd. pacemaker... my first Medtronic pacemaker i had it for 18 yrs. until the doctor turn it down than it didn't work good.. had to get a new one.. in Dec. it will be 2yrs. i had my pacemaker check last week and i find out the doctor that put my pacemaker in didn't set my pacemaker for life depend.. Good news is now my pacemaker is set for it not to be ever turn off..

The pacemaker itself should not be a deterent from having an ablation. I've had a pacemaker for 6 years (because of an ablation actually), and then had another ablation about a year ago. Unfortunately, the ablations don't work for me, but I have IST, not SVT so hopefully they're more effective for that.

My pacemaker battery had been dead for over a year and a half, and I just now was told that the pacemaker will have to be removed because it can damage the heart if it doesn't have a battery. Is this true? Incidentally, my pacemaker had not been activated for several years, as it was set for the minimum and didn't ever have to kick in.

I have had numerous surgeries including the Fontan in 1987 with a revision of the Fontan in 2006, where at that time I also had a Medtronic Enrhythym Pacemaker install. 3 weeks ago I had a Pacemaker replacement due to the fact my battery on my Pacemaker was running low. The new Pacemaker installed is a Medtronic Adapta. Since the new pacemaker my Heart beat has been all over the place. My 1st Enrhythym was paced at 80 bpm, and it pretty much stayed like that for 5.

i had 3 open heart surgery and on my 2nd. pacemaker.. my first pacemaker last me for 18yrs. and just got my 2nd. pacemaker Dec.2006.. my pacemaker was implanted in my upper chest on the right side.. only thing i hate the surgery doctor told me he would use the same cut as the other pacemaker but when i woke up he cut me in another spot.. well i can say.. ask your doctor his he using the same cut as the first pacemaker was in..

Do you have a pacemaker? The best is to check with your doctor or pacemaker technician. I don't know what can it cause the heart functioning abnormality if you have the inverted T waves? Anyone knows? It also depends if you're a pacemaker dependent or not. I'm not a pacemaker depend. I go well with the equipment which marks "Pacemaker user caution". If I found my heart beats abnormally, then I stop using it and try again after the heart settle.

Hi, I'm sorry about your mom. Its my understanding that they don't "stop" the pacemaker, Nature takes it course regardless of the pacemaker. I went through this with my mom.

My normal pulse rate with out pacemaker is 54 ppm. My dual lead pacemaker is set at 70 ppm, some people with pacemakers have the pacemaker rate set below their normal heart Resting rate Ex. normal rate 50 ppm Pacemaker set at 45 ppm. What determines the optimun pulse rate for the pacemaker? My Doctor is willing to set it at any rrrrrrrrrrate I choose. I am 86 years old in good physical shape,play tennis do nautilis and swim several times a week.

I don't believe a pacemaker is used to control AFib. Perhaps your father has other heart problems. The most common use for a pacemaker is to keep the heart from beating too slow, or stopping. Some times a PM is used when the heart electrical system has to be totally shut down, in which case there would be no AFib or other arrhythmia, but this is not done to my knowledge, to control AFib.

Pacemaker batteries will not run out unexpectedly. When a battery is running low, the elective replacement indicator (ERI) is activated. Physicians can detect this activation during a routine office visit. In addition, the battery status and the general functioning of the pacemaker can be tested over the telephone. This is generally done every one to two months.

You may be able to feel the pacemaker under your skin as the pacemaker is typically placed just below the skin. This area will be sore after surgery, but as time passes the pacemaker should become less noticeable.

my mother had a pacemaker implant ans was told that if she is ok in the next three weeks it will be removed. is this possible? To remove the pacemaker?? so why was it necessary to do this in the first place?

I just had a dual lead pacemaker put in 3 days ago to control accelerated junctional rhythm. The same night of surgery I had ajr of 135 it had overridden my pacemaker. I continue to have junctional rhythms and very rarely is my heart rate,at 85 which is what pacemaker is set at. I can't walk from one room to another without heart racing and out of breath. I feel horrible.. Will this get better as maybe my heart is irritated? I feel worse than. Before pacemaker.

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