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Delta Modern Language Schools
Science department
Grade 6
1st term 2024- 2025
Artificial pacemaker
▪ It is a device that is operated with a battery.
▪ It is inserted into the chest and stimulates the
heart muscle to beat regular intervals.
▪ Artificial pacemaker has been in use for over
60 years.
Battery
insulated electric wire
Motherboard
The future of pacemaker:
➢The artificial pacemaker has built-in antenna to send information to doctors, so
they know how the heart is behaving.
➢Pacemakers are getting more advanced by the year and becoming smaller.
➢ Doctors can place tiny, effective pacemaker well within the heart with a simple
surgery.
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