Why the study?
Does unipolar surgical electrocautery cause runaway pacemaker syndrome in patients with single chamber ventricular pacemakers?
Population
A patient with a single chamber ventricular pacemaker undergoing a procedure involving unipolar surgical…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Warrants caution with unipolar electrocautery near pacemakers; leaves open generalizability to modern devices or bipolar alternatives.
Does unipolar surgical electrocautery cause runaway pacemaker syndrome in patients with single chamber ventricular pacemakers?
Unipolar surgical electrocautery can induce runaway pacemaker syndrome, necessitating emergent explantation of the pulse generator.
Louis I. Heller (1990) studied this question.
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