Permanent Pacing

Question 1

def

Answer 1

a small device placed in the chest which controls abnormal heart rhythms

central role in bradycardia

Question 2

what sort of permanent pacemaker is used for atrial and ventricular tachyarrhthmias

Answer 2

ICDs

Question 3

what sort of permanent pacemaker is used for heart failure

Answer 3

cardiac resynchronization therapy

Question 4

indications

Answer 4

1 class I
-symptomatic bradycardia
-2nd degree (mobitz 2) + 3rd degree heart block
-persistant AF
2 class IIa
-symptomatic sinus node disease with heart rate <40 bpm or unexplained syncope
-first- or second-degree heart block causing pacemaker syndrome

Question 5

complications

Answer 5

1 procedural
-haematoma
-pneumothorax
-pericardial effusion
2 late complications
-lead displacement
-infection