Ask the Doctor: ‘Is there a device similar to a leadless single-chamber pacemaker that can be fitted to the atrium?’“There is a device called a leadless single-chamber pacemaker, which can be fitted to the ventricle but not to the atrium. Is there a similar device that can be fitted to the atrium?”
Pacemakers are a common procedure in modern medicine. There are many types of pacemakers inserted for various conditions. More specifically, pacemakers are used to prevent the heart rate or pulse falling beneath a programmable level. More complicated devices aim to improve the pumping function of the bottom chambers and can include an extra pacing wire inside the heart to resynchronise it.
In recent years, leadless pacemakers have been developed; they’re small capsules that connect directly with the heart muscle internally and have no leads; advantageous for having less foreign material within the body, which may degrade over time, and because there is no pacemaker ‘box’ felt or seen beneath the skin.
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