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 5 min This content is machine translated Cardiology Update Refresher MRI and pacemaker/ICD – an impossible combination? It can be dangerous when a patient with cardiac device needs an MRI. Among other things, the electrodes may heat up, an electrical reset is conceivable and the battery status…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cardiac resynchronization therapy in old age A very effective therapy if the indication is correct Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established therapy for the treatment of symptomatic heart failure and reduction of mortality in patients with left bundle branch block and extended medical therapy.…
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 7 min This content is machine translated ESC Congress in London Much discussed results on myocardial infarction and pacemakers. Once again this year, numerous exciting events took place at the ESC Congress in London. As always, the hot-line sessions with cutting-edge and practice-relevant study results generated a lot of…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Arrhythmias Pacemakers and devices – what’s new? Various studies have recently led to an expansion of indications for cardiac resynchronization therapy. The desire to avoid intravascular leads connected to a subcutaneous device has led to the development…
