Abstract
A superficial comparison of pacemaker problems 10 years ago and today seems to show that things have changed very little (1). Both then and now one would have listed in approximate order of importance limited battery life, component failure, and wire fractures as the most frequent and serious problems. Actually, great qualitative and quantitative improvements have occurred in engineering technology, long-term and diagnostic and therapeutic methods. To summarize at the outset, new batteries of a number of models give promise of lasting five to ten years, and wire and component failures occur relatively rarely. The materials and techniques pertaining to these last two problems are not the subject of this report except as they relate to the overall problem of pacemaker life.
Supported in part by grants from the New Jersey Regional Medical Program, the Pacemaker Foundation, the Essex County Heart Association, and NIH grants #5 RD1 HL 15247 and RO1 HL 13057.
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Parsonnet, V., Gilbert, L., Zucker, I.R., Myers, G.H., Katz, P. (1975). Long-Life Pacemakers. In: Schaldach, M., Furman, S. (eds) Engineering in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66187-7_20
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