Artificial pacemaker

An Artificial pacemaker

A pacemaker is a device created by Earl Bakken that helps to regulate your heart, if you have arrhythmia. It uses electrical pulses. If your heart is beating too fast, the pacemaker slows it down. If your heart slows down, the pacemaker will slightly speed it up, so that it goes back to a normal heart beat.

Artificial Pacemaker Media

An ECG in a person with a single-chamber pacemaker to the atrium. Note the circle around one of the sharp electrical spikes in the position where the P wave would be expected.
An ECG of a person with a dual-chamber pacemaker
Right atrial and right ventricular leads as visualized under x-ray during a pacemaker implant procedure. The atrial lead is the curved one making a U shape in the upper left part of the figure.
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Single-chamber VVIR/AAIR pacemaker
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Dual-chamber DDDR pacemaker
Posteroanterior and lateral chest radiographs of a pacemaker with normally located leads in the right atrium (white arrow) and right ventricle (black arrowhead), respectively
Two types of remote monitoring devices used by pacemaker patients
Ultrasound showing non capture of a pacemaker

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