the pacemaker can raise its minimum rate like how the heart would normally respond to exercise. Sensors can also detect if a person begins to breathe more quickly or if the heart begins to contract ...

It also reduces the risk of complications from traditional pacemakers, which have a battery, a generator, and wires. The wires are threaded into your heart through a vein. A metal box with the ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A doctor at one Lowcountry hospital became the first heart specialist in the Carolinas to implant a new type of leadless pacemaker this week. Electrophysiologist ...

A wave of contraction spreads across the heart - to the left atrium and then to the ventricles. This enables the ventricles to contract together. Sometimes, the rhythm of the heart's natural ...

Background: The incidence of conduction disease requiring permanent pacemaker (PPM ... Aortic valve types did not predict complete heart block (CHB) and PPM implantation. Of those patients ...

"implanted pacemakers and defibrillators might contain sensors that respond to magnets and radios when in close contact". Implanted defibrillators send electrical pulses to regulate abnormal heart ...