Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

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Implanting a pacemaker may be a common procedure but performing the surgery in the heart of a 102-year-old woman is rare, he said. Dr Smriti Kana Roy, a gynaecologist who used to treat Saint Teresa ...

Days later, he was rushed to hospital to undergo emergency surgery, and was recovering after having a pacemaker fitted, although he admitted he was living with a “strange sensation”.

We therefore recommend pacemaker implantation after cardiac surgery for patients who are pacemaker dependent after surgery and whose spontaneous rhythm does not recover by postoperative day 5.