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How does artificial pacemaker affect the body?
Pacemakers send electrical pulses to help your heart beat at a normal rate and rhythm. Pacemakers can also be used to help your heart chambers beat in sync so your heart can pump blood more efficiently to your body.
What are the advantages of artificial pacemakers?
By regulating the heart’s rhythm, a pacemaker can often eliminate the symptoms of bradycardia. This means individuals often have more energy and less shortness of breath.
What purpose does an artificial pacemaker serve and how does it function?
Artificial pacemaker: A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or reproduce it. An internal pacemaker is one in which the electrodes to the heart, the electronic circuitry, and the power supply are all implanted internally, within the body.
What is the life expectancy of a person with a pacemaker?
The average life expectancy og pacemaker is about 10 years. Pacemaker can last for 15 years or longer depending on frequency of use and few other factors that may cause unnecessary discharge of electric power.
What is the recovery time for pacemaker replacement?
The pacemaker surgery recovery is usually at the end of 4 weeks, which in some persons may prolong by a week due to their age and physical conditions. And usually at the end of the 12 weeks the patient is completely fit to resume his daily schedules and previous work.
What are the risks in having a pacemaker placed?
Pacemaker is a safe medical device with a low risk of complications. Some of the risks of pacemaker implantation include complications during or after pacemaker surgery, infection of the pacemaker, and pacemaker malfunction.
What is the working principle of a pacemaker?
The basic working principle of an artificial pacemaker is that external electrical impulses are used to generate a regulation beating rhythm of the heart to rescue patients with severe dysfunction of sinoatrial node,heart block or other cardiopathies,in order to keep…