If a pacemaker quit...?!


Question: If someone's pacemaker was to quit on them, is there anything that doctors can do for this person???


Answers: If someone's pacemaker was to quit on them, is there anything that doctors can do for this person???

Yes, it's fairly common to replace pacemakers, or replace the battery, or re-program the settings. It's a fairly simple, straightforward operation with usually one night in the hospital. People with pacemakers know they have to check in with their docs regularly to check the functioning of the pacemaker because they do wear out over time. If a device is clearly dysfunctional, depending on the patient's underlying condition, there are various ways to pace prior to replacement. You've read about some of them here already. Actually there are two ways: external and transvenous. External is non-invasive but hurts. Transvenous is invasive but doesn't hurt--or at least that's what I've been led to believe. If the person's underlying condition is not so critical, the doc may decide to rely on meds until replacement , but might want the person admitted to the hospital where the patient can be monitored 24/7 in case the condition changes. Good question.

Yes they can do external pacing until they can get them into surgery to give them a new pacemaker

Yes, put a new one in.

Pacemakers need new batteries or to have components replaced all the time. They can usually make these repairs through catheters or small incisions.

Most pacemakers don't run constantly. Instead they take over when the heart becomes too slow or too fast.

So if the pacemaker quit or malfunctioned, it would sound an alarm(yes an actual alarm in the person's chest) and a new one would be put in.

yes they can do external pacing.... then put in a new pace maker. Generally Pacemakers aren't completely controlling your heart rate anyway, they are just providing the extra stimulation that your heart needs to pump blood more effectively.

Alot of pacemakers have defibrillators with them ... so if the pacemaker stops, the defib starts shocking the heart until the person is placed on an external pacemaker. Then the bad pacemaker is replaced.

They can insert a "transvenous pacer" (it is inserted into a vein and threaded to the heart). Some times medications can be used to drive a heart rate. People can usually tolerate their underlying abnormal heart rhythm (if the pacer is failing) until they get a new generator. Pacer last up to 10 years before the batteries give out... It is pretty routine to deal with them. It isn't as risky usually as you might be thinking.

GET TO AN ER and call the rep for the pacemaker company AND the cardiologist.

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