In this paper you will find information about pacemakers and defibrillators. Pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that help keep the heart in rhythm. If the heart starts to beat to slow or to fast it will send an electrical shock to get it back on pace. When you get one or both devices implanted in you will need to have regular check-up with the doctors, these should not affect your daily life. Later on in the article you read that you may be allowed to still participate in fast paced sports such as basketball or soccer. Lastly just because you are young do not think that you can not have a heart attack or heart failure, the only thing age has to do with is your chance of living or being able to be revived.
To begin in the article “Pacemaker” by Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, it states your heart there is a natural pacemaker (Lerner and Lerner, 2014). In paragraph 1 it says that it is “ a small patch of cells at the top right atrium that sends rhythmic electrical impulses to relax and contract the muscles.” (Lerner and Lerner, 2014). If the does not work and you have a irregular heartbeat you may need a pacemaker. This will help control the irregular heartbeats with low energy shocks to the SA node or …show more content…
Just because you are older does not mean you are experiencing worse symptom than the younger patients. Older patients experience cardiac problems more regularly. 38.5% of people that received an icd were 70 years or older, only 7% were 80 and older. The only that your age as to do with is death (Yung et al, 2013). “For example, among those undergoing ICD implantation for prevention of cardiac arrest, 2 in every 100 patients ages 18-49 died whereas 10 in 100 died among those 80 years and older.” as stated in the article in the last paragraph (Yung et al,
To begin in the article “Pacemaker” by Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, it states your heart there is a natural pacemaker (Lerner and Lerner, 2014). In paragraph 1 it says that it is “ a small patch of cells at the top right atrium that sends rhythmic electrical impulses to relax and contract the muscles.” (Lerner and Lerner, 2014). If the does not work and you have a irregular heartbeat you may need a pacemaker. This will help control the irregular heartbeats with low energy shocks to the SA node or …show more content…
Just because you are older does not mean you are experiencing worse symptom than the younger patients. Older patients experience cardiac problems more regularly. 38.5% of people that received an icd were 70 years or older, only 7% were 80 and older. The only that your age as to do with is death (Yung et al, 2013). “For example, among those undergoing ICD implantation for prevention of cardiac arrest, 2 in every 100 patients ages 18-49 died whereas 10 in 100 died among those 80 years and older.” as stated in the article in the last paragraph (Yung et al,