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2. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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   The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an even heart rate, either because the heart's natural cardiac pacemaker provides an inadequate or irregular heartbeat, or because there is a block in the heart's electrical conduction system. Modern pacemakers are externally programmable and allow a cardiologist to select the optimal pacing ...

3. Cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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   An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or just pacemaker is an implanted medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart either the upper atria, or lower ventricles to cause the targeted chambers to contract and ...

4. Implantable loop recorder - Wikipedia

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   record heart electrical activity An implantable loop recorder ( ILR ), also known as an insertable cardiac monitor ( ICM ), is a small device that is implanted under the skin of the chest for cardiac monitoring , to record the heart's electrical activity for an extended period.

5. Mon Health cardiologists install first dual-chamber leadless ...

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   Jun. 8—MORGANTOWN — On May 20, two Mon Health Heart and Vascular cardiologists performed the state's first implant of the next-generation pacemaker system. It's called the AVEIR DR, made by ...

6. Arnold Schwarzenegger just got a pacemaker. Here's what to ...

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   Pacemakers are also sometimes used temporarily when someone is recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, but in this case only the wires are inserted into the body; the pacemaker box stays ...

7. Tiny power plant can charge a pacemaker through heartbeats - AOL

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   Pacemakers and other electronic implants are a pain to keep running -- patients need surgery to replace batteries, and body-powered generators aren't currently strong enough to charge these devices.