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Parrish Medical Center
Parrish Medical Center
Offers The World’s
Offers The W orld’ s
Smallest Pacemaker
Smallest Pacemaker
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Which Can Now Treat
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New Device Means More Patients Are Now
Candidates for a Leadless Pacing Option

Parrish Medical Center is one of the ventricles. When this process – known
first hospitals in the state of Florida to as AV synchrony – is achieved, patients
offer Micra™ AV, the world’s smallest are healthier and have decreased
pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) likelihood of pacemaker syndrome ,
synchrony. This new device, indicated for improved quality of life , and increased
the treatment of patients with AV block, blood flow from the left ventricle.
extends the most advanced pacing tech- Historically, patients with AV block have
nology – at one-tenth the size of a tradi- been treated with traditional dual-cham-
tional pacemaker ber pacemakers which are implanted in
– to more patients the upper chest, under the skin below
than ever before. the collar bone, and connected to the
The first procedure heart using thin wires called “leads.”
was performed by Micra™ AV has several internal atrial
Interventional Car- sensing algorithms which detect cardiac
diologist Rene Celis, movement, allowing the device to adjust
MD, on December pacing in the ventricle to coordinate
19, 2019 and since then 18 have been with the atrium, providing “AV synchro-
performed at Parrish Medical Center. nous” pacing therapy to patients with AV
AV block is a type of heart block in block.
which the electrical signals between the The Micra AV, world’s smallest pace-
chambers of the heart (the atria and the maker, is the latest cardiovascular
ventricles) are impaired. Pacemakers, advancement being offered as part of
the most common way to treat AV block, Parrish Medical Center’s cardiovascular
help restore the heart’s normal rhythm service line. Parrish Medical Center
and relieve symptoms by coordinating was also the first in Brevard to offer the
the electrical activity of the atria and the minimally invasive Impella® heart pump,