Transitional care of nurses to older adults with artificial pacemaker
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021 Objective: to understand how the transitional care of nurses to olde adults with artificial pacemaker occurs. Method: a qualitative research, carried out in a philanthropic hospital in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Emanuela Santos Oliveira +6 more
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Twenty years' use of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheet for an artificial cardiac pacemaker
Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Physicians can prolongedly use expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheets for fixation of artificial cardiac pacemakers to avoid pacemaker lead displacement. The sheets can also be used to prevent implant rejection in patients with metal allergies.
Kenji Yorita +5 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2022 Severe hypertension sometimes improves with treatment of bradycardia but this phenomenon is under‐reported. Here, an elderly gentleman with complete heart block and a hypertensive emergency was refractory to medical therapies and blood pressure only ...
Moinuddin Choudhury +3 more
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Sudden mode change of permanent pacemaker during living donor liver transplantation - A case report - [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2023 Background Pacemakers assist circulation by generating electrical impulses. Patients with pacemakers scheduled to undergo surgery are vulnerable to device-related complications.
Sooyeon Lee, Gaabsoo Kim
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IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022 Surgical simulators are safe and evolving educational tools for developing surgical skills. In particular, virtual and hybrid simulators are preferred due to their detailedness, customization and evaluation capabilities. To accelerate the revolution of a
T. Thurner +12 more
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Journal of long-term effects of medical implants, 2022 This paper presents the design and simulation of an Interval type 2 fuzzy system (IT2FS) based, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) pacemaker controller in MATLAB.
Asghar Dabiri +3 more
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Feasibility of physiological pacing rate in cardiac resynchronization therapy
ESC Heart Failure, 2023 Aims Although cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves functional capacity in heart failure patients, a blunted heart rate (HR) response remains after treatment.
Caio V. Spaggiari +5 more
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Typical chest pain and precordial leads ST-elevation in patients with pacemakers - are we always looking at an acute myocardial infarction? [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2015 Introduction. Electrocardiographic (ECG) diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with paced rhythm is difficult. Sgarbossa’s criteria represent helpful diagnostic ECG tool. Case report.
Ostojić Marina M. +4 more
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillator - powerful weapon in primary and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2019 Bacgraund/Aim. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the biggest problems of the contemporary medicine. Large studies showed that anti-arrhythmics, including amiodarone, are not effective in prevention of SCD in the patients with cardiac diseases who were
Kostić Tomislav +12 more
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Successful implantation of a permanent pacemaker through a persistent left superior vena cava by using a right subclavian approach [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Introduction. Persistent left superior vena cava, a rare congenital abnormality, can complicate placement of pacemaker leads through the subclavian vein. A left-sided approach is usually preferable in such cases. Case report.
Jović Zoran +6 more
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