A healthy heart beats 60 to 100 beats per minute, but when that rate slows down, patients require a pacemaker.

Then, using an instrument similar to a miniature shoehorn, we put one of the pacemaker wires into the vein. The object is to feed the wires into the heart. They have a soft plastic covering but a ...

Trinity Health Muskegon is the first hospital in West Michigan to implant an AVIR DR pacemaker, the world's first ...

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An Epworth cardiologist who recently implanted Victoria's first available lead-free dual chamber pacemaker technology, has ...

It also reduces the risk of complications from traditional pacemakers, which have a battery, a generator, and wires. The wires are threaded into your heart through a vein. A metal box with the ...

Traditional pacemakers, which require a separate battery under the skin and wires that connect to the heart, can cause an infection that, according to Dr Antony, can be fatal in 40% of cases.