Whats a Pace-Maker?

[Ella]

i have a heart problem but i don't need a pacemaker :S

There are a hundred types of heart problem. Yours is probobly different.

It's keyhole surgery, you'll be awake and won't feel a thing.

With heart keyhole, they normally just make very very small incisions in your shoulder and leg.

[Sammeth.]

I think this should help with, in simple terms, what it is.

A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device which uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an adequate heart rate, either because the heart's native pacemaker is not fast enough, or there is a block in the heart's electrical conduction system. Modern pacemakers are externally programmable and allow the cardiologist to select the optimum pacing modes for individual patients. Some combine a pacemaker and implantable defibrillator in a single implantable device. Others have multiple electrodes stimulating differing positions within the heart to improve synchronisation of the lower chambers of the heart.

[siz]

Pace-Makers are not bad but i was useing wireless on my psp once in town looking for other psp users that had grand theft auto and somone who i think had a pace maker started juttering and when i turned wireless off she stopped so i truend it on again and it started so i was confused, but whe i looked it up on the internet i found out psp wireless messes up pacemakers and i could of killed her, so i guss thats no psp wireless if you own or are planning to get a psp.

[reindeer.]

i have a heart problem but i don't need a pacemaker :S

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