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A pacemaker is a device implanted into the chest that has a wire lead that sits in the right ventricle (single chamber pacer), the right atrium and ventricle (A-V pacer), or the right ventricle and the coronary sinus (dual chamber pacer) and provides electrical stimulation to the cardiac muscle.

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