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2. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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   The spike of an "atrial-demand pacemaker" appears just before the P wave. [16] Comparably, a Triggered Pacemaker is activated immediately after an electrical activity is commenced in the heart tissue by itself. A "ventricular triggered pacemaker" produces the impulse just after a pulse is created in the ventricular tissue and it appears as a ...

3. Patient one of first to be fitted with new pacemaker the size ...

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   A 76-year-old man has become one of the first people in the country to be fitted with a new pacemaker 10 times smaller than a standard device and with a battery that can last for up to 20 years.

4. 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 ...

5. Ventricular assist device - Wikipedia

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   VADs can be used in patients with acute (sudden onset) or chronic (long standing) heart failure, which can occur due to coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, valvular disease, and other conditions. [1] [2]

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...