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What are heart pacemakers for?
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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.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Enusure that: Heart rate does not go below a certain rate by paving the right atrium or right ventricle or both (in general).
Answered 7/28/2014
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