Permanent transvenous pacing is a major cardiologic advance, but physicians must be aware of the potential risks and complications associated with the permanent implantation of a foreign body.
What are the complications associated with permanent transvenous pacing?
The paper highlights the importance of recognizing and understanding the risks and complications associated with permanent transvenous pacing.
Permanent cardiac pacing, particularly by the relatively simple and safe transvenous method, must rank as one of the great cardiologic advances of the 20th century, with a record of thousands of lives saved and more thousands of patients relieved of symptoms previously beyond the reach of medical therapy. It would be wrong, however, to pretend that the procedure was innocuous; permanent implantation of a foreign body within the heart must always entail some risk, and before recommending or implementing permanent pacing, the physician must know what complications may arise and how likely they are to occur.Data recorded in the . . .
Phibbs et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Permanent cardiac pacing complications. Permanent transvenous pacing was evaluated on Complications of permanent transvenous pacing. Permanent transvenous pacing is a major cardiologic advance, but physicians must be aware of the potential risks and complications associated with the permanent implantation of a foreign body.