Early experience with permanent pacemaker implantation at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Artificial pacemakers generate electrical impulses and regulate the heart´s conduction system. They are often used to treat individuals with bradycardia. Permanent pacemaker implantation is a lifesaving procedure especially in patients with
Uvie Ufuoma Onakpoya +4 more
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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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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2007 OBJETIVO: Realizar uma análise da estimulação biventricular convencional (BV), da estimulação bifocal (BF) de ventrículo direito (VD) e uma análise comparativa das duas técnicas, em relação aos parâmetros clínicos, funcionais e ecocardiográficos, em uma ...
Eduardo Arrais Rocha +10 more
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The Total Artificial Heart and the Dilemma of Deactivation [PDF]
, 2016 It is widely believed to be permissible for a physician to discontinue any treatment upon the request of a competent patient. Many also believe it is never permissible for a physician to intentionally kill a patient.
Bronner, Ben
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The effects of repetitive electric cardiac stimulation in dogs with normal hearts, complete heart block and experimental cardiac arrest [PDF]
, 1955 Direct cardiac stimulation was conducted in the open chest. In normal animals, auricular stimulation at frequencies faster than the spontaneous rate caused little change in vascular pressures or cardiac output.
GAERTNER, RA, STARZL, TE, WEBB, RC
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Pseudopacemaker syndrome and marked first-degree atrioventricular block: Case report [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2010 Introduction. Pacemaker syndrome consists of the symptoms and signs present in the single chamber (VVI) pacemaker patient with electrode placed in the right ventricular apex.
Panić Miloš +4 more
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Analysis of predictors of sick sinus syndrome after open surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation
КардиоСоматика, 2021 Aim. To identify and analyze predictors of the development of sick sinus syndrome in patients with atrial fibrillation. Material and methods. We include 847 patients with paroxysmal (121) and permanent (726) form of atrial fibrillation in our research.
Vadim A. Karnakhin +3 more
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The relation between cardiac 123I-mIBG scintigraphy and functional response 1 year after CRT implantation [PDF]
, 2020 Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a disease-modifying therapy in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Current guidelines ascribe CRT eligibility on three parameters only: left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), QRS duration, and New ...
de Groot, J R +7 more
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Neuronal synchrony: peculiarity and generality [PDF]
, 2008 Synchronization in neuronal systems is a new and intriguing application of dynamical systems theory. Why are neuronal systems different as a subject for synchronization?
Bell C. C. +12 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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