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My husband grandmother is 95 and is becoming extremely frail and ailing. his mum said she thought is grandma did not have a pacemaker she would have past away. is this true? does the pacemaker keep her alive so she would not die of heart failure due to

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Dr. Rick Koch answered

Pacemakers: Pacemakers are for the treatment of conduction system abnormalities/failure and in certain instances can be life prolonging in advanced conduction system disease.

Answered 3/31/2013

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Dr. John Garner answered

Specializes in Cardiology

No: A pacemaker can't keep you from dying of heart failure. It can keep you from dying of not having a heart beat, but not of that.

Answered 8/8/2018

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