Pacemaker

The pacemaker is a type of device that is implanted in the heart capable of regularizing heartbeats. It is indicated for people suffering from diseases that generate cardiac arrhythmia, such as bradycardia and tachycardia.

In bradycardia the heart beats slower than it should, here the pacemaker or pacemaker, as it is also known, goes into action and increases heart rate. Already in the tachycardia, the heart beats of accelerated form and the pacemaker is useful to regularize these beats, becoming them more uniform.

For the placement of the pacemaker, surgery must be performed and these patients should be given special care, such as avoiding the use of the cell phone in the left breast pocket and always walking with a document proving its use, since doors with metal detectors will always be activated by the pacemaker.

People who have a chest pacemaker can have a normal life and even do physical activity. The pacemaker lasts for 5 years, and it is necessary to have it replaced through another surgery.