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navigation equipment. Passing through the information about the pacemaker’s
metal detector at airports will not damage a operation and battery condition over the
pacemaker, but the metal in it may sound the phone electronically. Checking the
alarm. If this happens, patients simply show pacemaker is equivalent to your doctor
security personnel their pacemaker ID card. checking you for any other medical
condition. Just as doctors may need to
change the dosage of a medication, so they
may need to change the settings of a
pacemaker.
Q: How do patients know if they need
a new pacemaker?
A: Pacemakers are extremely
dependable devices,
and a pacemaker will
give ample warning
if its battery is low.
This is one of the
Q: How do doctors monitor pacemaker reasons for periodic
performance?
evaluations, either
A: It is important to check a pacemaker by telephone or by a
periodically to make sure that it’s more extensive evaluation in the physician’s
functioning properly and that its settings office. Most pacemaker systems will
remain appropriate for the patient’s continue to function normally for 3 to 6
medical needs. Doctors typically schedule months after the point where the battery
follow-up visits that include a brief physical is signaling a low level that calls for
examination, an electrocardiogram, and a replacement. Doctors, therefore, can offer
detailed evaluation of how well the patients a time window of several months
pacemaker is performing. They can easily in which to schedule a simple procedure
and non-invasively retrieve to replace the pulse generator.
this information and, if
necessary, adjust the Q: How many people in the world have
pacemaker’s pacemakers?
settings, using a
A: The number exceeds 2 million. There are
specialized
300,000 implants each year all over the
programmer. Some
world, some of which are replacements.
doctors also utilize
telephone
monitoring, in which
they obtain
