St. Agnes Medical Center using leadless pacemaker

FRENO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The bosom is simply a cardinal organ that ne'er stops. It pumps humor and carries oxygen and nutrients passim our bodies.

"The bosom beats much than 100,000 times a day," says Dr. Dalpinder Sandhu.

But sometimes our heartbeats tin beryllium irregular, oregon adjacent acquisition slower rhythms.

That's wherefore a pacemaker tin assistance get folks backmost connected track.

"In those individuals, we request to assistance it," Dr. Sandhu said. "The pacemaker provides an electrical awesome to the bosom truthful it tin beat."

Now, the Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker is sparking alteration erstwhile it comes to the aesculapian technology.

Dr. Sandhu has worked with this caller device.

"Most of the time, much than 90% of the time, we request to gait 2 chambers of the heart," helium said. "This is simply a precise caller and innovate exertion wherever we tin enactment a pacemaker successful the apical and little chambers and synchronize them both."

Glyniss D'Mello is the Director of Telemetry and Cardiovascular Services with St. Agnes Medical Center.

She says the dual leadless pacemaker uses a minimally invasive process and tin assistance trim risks.

"There is nary reasons for leads to fracture due to the fact that it's wireless exertion and there's nary surgical tract infections, truthful the hazard of surgical tract incisions and infections spell away," she said.

The lifespan of the leadless pacemaker is astir 15 years.

Earlier this year, St. Agnes Medical Center became the archetypal infirmary successful the Central Valley to usage this benignant of technology.

Health experts accidental this tin amended the prime of beingness for patients, particularly aged oregon immunocompromised.

"Everybody wants to beryllium capable to determination astir the assemblage not having issues," D'Mello said. "There's not scarring, truthful there's the cosmetic angle. There's nary bump connected the chest."

St. Agnes Medical Center besides says that successful having this attraction astatine their facility, it provides Valley residents with much entree to attraction and keeps them person to home

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