Cardiac arrythmias.. Sometimes life threatening cardiac arrythmias. Inneficient cardiac out put and death.
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If a person is on pacemaker how will high altitude affect him?
There is more chance of a heart attack. A pacemaker regulates the patients heartbeat.
An Artificial Pacemaker basically regulates the rate of the heart beat depending on the needs of the body.
Oxygen needs
There are several criteria that a sick person must meet before they are eligible for a pacemaker. Specifically, they must have severe heart problems, delayed heartbeat, and be on medications to treat their heart problems.
A person can only have one pacemaker. A pacemaker helps if you have problems with the beating of your heart. If you have two pacemakers the beating of your heart won't be normal.
A person who doesn't care what happens is someone who needs to go to mental health. I'm not trying to be mean, but someone who doesn't care needs help.
About 3 years, it fills with blood and needs to be renewed
Usually in patients with a pacemaker, it happens in the atrioventricular node.
Depending on the configuration of the pacemaker and the clinical needs of the patient, as many as three leads may be used in a pacing system.
My grandmother received one today - she was 99 Oct 25th 2007.