Question 1

does the taser affect the heart or a cardiac pacemaker?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Depending on  how dependent you are on pacemaker, taser may interfere with pacemaker function. Unless taser is directed over pacemaker pulse generator, it should work okay. However, it needs to be checked to be sure.  Key is to avoid any high voltage, high electromagnetic force or magnetic forces if you have a pacemaker.

Question 2

i'm just wondering, if you have a cardiac pacemaker, can you have a heart attack or go into cardiac arrest?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Pacemaker does not protect against heart attack or cardiac arrest.

Question 3

are there alternative welding methods that can be used by people with heart pacemakers?

Accepted Answer

Not usualy: We really don't think of OCD as contagious in any sense. However because it can be very intense and powerful to be around someone with OCD it can seem very compelling. Sometimes people over accommodate to be supportive or agreeable.

Question 4

what are heart pacemakers for?

Accepted Answer

Regulate heart rate: Most are placed for patients with too slow heart rates, some can deliver shocks (aicd) for patients with rapid heart beats. Rarely used to improve heart pumping function in patients with heart failure.

Question 5

do patients with heart pacemakers and taking steroids and immunosuppression for autoimmune disorder need antibiotic prophylaxis before dental extraction?

Accepted Answer

: Based on the most recent guidelines, antibiotic prophylaxis is not needed for regular teeth extractions for immunosuppressed patients if their condition is under control and it is also not indicated for patients with implantable devices like a pacemaker.

Question 6

if you have a pacemaker, can you still have a heart attack / cardiac arrest?

Accepted Answer

Yes: pacemaker helps to control or regulate the rhythm (electricity) of the heart. Heart attack is related to blockages of the arteries of the heart (plumbing, if you want the analogy). Pacemaker will prevent the heart beating too slow but will NOT prevent blockages from developing or producing heart attacks

Question 7

can you still have a heart attack or go into cardiac arrest if you have a pacemaker?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Both of these problems are due to issues not addressed by the pacemaker. A heart attack is generally due to a blockage and a heart artery, and cardiac arrest is usually due to an exceedingly fast heart rate where the pacemaker only fixes slow heart rates. A defibrillator is the device of choice to treat cardiac arrest.

Question 8

pacemaker problem regarding heart attack/cardiac arrest, can you tell me about this?

Accepted Answer

Unrelated: There is far less than a 1% risk of heart attack during pacemaker implantation.  Once it is implanted, there is almost no way it could cause a significant heart attack.  It will not prevent most cardiac arrests.  An ICD can treat cardiac arrest from ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation

Question 9

had a cardiac ablation two weeks ago and now my heart ratee is going from 50 to as high as 130 could that mean a pacemaker getting an even monitor?

Accepted Answer

Great question!: Since you've already had an ablation, you already have an expert at your disposal to help answer this question - the same doctor who did your procedure.  He or she needs to know your symptoms in order to obtain any additional testing, which may well be an event monitor.  Call today!

Question 10

should my sister have a pacemaker placed? she is 83 years old and in faily good health,  i feel that much of her cardiac issues are drug induced by prescription drugs.
she is not a candidate for open heart surgey and refuses extraordinary means , such as

Accepted Answer

If : If your sister has really gone into â€˜v-fibâ€™ twice, she may not be in as good of a health status as you may think.  V-fib stands for ventricular fibrillation, a life threatening heart rhythm abnormalities from the bottom chambers of the heart that is so rapid and disorganized that the heart is essentially stops pumping blood out of the heart effectively and thus can lead to sudden and unexpected cardiac death.  If v-fib persists, the only way to terminated it is to â€˜shock the patientâ€™ out of it with a defibrillator.  The fact that you mention that she is not a candidate for â€˜open heart surgeryâ€™ leads me to believe that she may suffer from with heart artery blockages, severe heart disease, or one of the many other serious heart problems.  Unless your sister suffers from a relatively rare condition called â€˜bradycardia-dependent v-fibâ€™ (life threatening fat heart rhythm from the bottom chambers that are triggered from slow heart eat from the bottom chambers), chances are that your sister needs is an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (icd), not a pacemaker. Icds are expensive devices that can be associated with complications such as death, stroke, heart attacks, infections, blood clots, rupture of blood vessels, perforation of the heart muscle, bleeding, etc.  While the risk versus benefit ratio is unique to each patient, their condition, the expertise and experience of their physician and that of the he staff of the facility where the procedure is done, among selected patients, the procedural risk of these procedures is substantially less than the risk of not having it done. Icd can improve quality of life and life expectancy in the right patients.

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I'm just wondering, if you have a cardiac pacemaker, can you have a heart attack or go into cardiac arrest?

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Are there alternative welding methods that can be used by people with heart pacemakers?

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What are heart pacemakers for?

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Do patients with heart pacemakers and taking steroids and immunosuppression for autoimmune disorder need antibiotic prophylaxis before dental extraction?

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If you have a pacemaker, can you still have a heart attack / cardiac arrest?

A member asked:

Can you still have a heart attack or go into cardiac arrest if you have a pacemaker?

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Pacemaker problem regarding heart attack/cardiac arrest, can you tell me about this?

A member asked:

Had a cardiac ablation two weeks ago and now my heart ratee is going from 50 to as high as 130 could that mean a pacemaker getting an even monitor?

A member asked:

Should my sister have a pacemaker placed? she is 83 years old and in faily good health, i feel that much of her cardiac issues are drug induced by prescription drugs. she is not a candidate for open heart surgey and refuses extraordinary means , such as

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