This content is machine translated Physical performance in cardiac patients Sport with pacemaker Sport is also possible with a pacemaker. What should I pay attention to when programming the pacemaker? What are the possibilities offered by frequency-adaptive aggregates? And what aspects need to…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pacemaker Pacemaker knowledge for family physicians The most common indications for pacing are symptomatic second- and third-degree AV blocks, a sick sinus node with symptomatic pauses, and symptomatic chronotropic incompetence. To avoid patient hazards during surgery…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated An impressive development From heart replacement to the modern cardiac assist pump The number of patients with clinically advanced cardiacinsufficiency is increasing worldwide. If conventional therapeutic options have been exhausted, it is necessary to evaluate whether the criteria for heart transplantation are…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Guidelines/Indications Who needs a pacemaker? For prognostic reasons, pacemaker implantation should also be recommended to asymptomatic patients with AVB II° type Mobitz or AVB III°. Sinus node disease (e.g., SA block, sinus bradycardia) generally has…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Review The development of pacemaker therapy in Switzerland In 1958, Professor Åke Senning, who was appointed to Zurich a few years later, initiated an unprecedented development in medicine at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm: the implantation of the first…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Pacemaker What the internist should know At the Internal Medicine Update Refresher in Zurich, Christine Franzini, MD, from the Stadtspital Triemli, vividly explained the tasks that cardiac pacemakers can perform in modern medicine. She discussed the…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cardiology Highlights 2013 New practice-relevant European guidelines What news did the 2013 European Congress of Cardiology in Amsterdam bring? Discussed were not only practice-relevant guidelines, but also the current trends regarding lifestyle modifications. Furthermore, studies on the…
