There is more chance of a heart attack. A pacemaker regulates the patients heartbeat.
The Pacemaker ensures that the heart has a steady rhythm without any cause for a breakdown or skip in the beat.
Usually in patients with a pacemaker, it happens in the atrioventricular node.
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When a new battery is required, the unit can be exchanged in a simple outpatient procedure.
The pacemaker changed the world for medical reasons. Before, the 1st pacemaker would be portable and would have to be plugged into an outlet. This changed the population of people that have bradycardia. The pacemaker improved as the years went on. Later on it was implantable and had batteries. Today, the pacemaker also can be charged from the outside without getting surgery to replace the battery due to the new technology that we have today.
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How did the pacemaker effect the world?
Cardiac arrythmias.. Sometimes life threatening cardiac arrythmias. Inneficient cardiac out put and death.
It would likely fry the pacemaker
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the answer is in the question. if the pacemaker is replaced the leads are used for it.
Yes, the pacemaker is obviously malfunctioning. Just try to not place the pad directly over the pacemaker. Typically however this is not a problem as a pacemaker is usally located near the left shoulder and the pads go on the right shoulder and left side.