Simviation Forum - Something very very close to my heart

Sep 10^th, 2010 at 4:51am

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Actually my heart.... An X-Ray from earlier this year XD

Yep some of the wires are loose XD

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Reply #1 - Sep 10^th, 2010 at 4:11pm

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I first saw it and thought it was an ipod. Grin

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Reply #2 - Sep 10^th, 2010 at 5:29pm

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Is that a pacemaker?

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Reply #3 - Sep 18^th, 2010 at 8:12pm

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Steve M wrote on Sep 10^th, 2010 at 5:29pm:

Is that a pacemaker?

Yep. A pacemaker tickles the heart with a tiny jolt of electricity to keep the beat regular. Marvelous technology. My mom is on her second one. Without it, she would have been gone a while back. They can even be programmed over the telephone. You hold the earpiece up to your chest where the pacemaker is, and the doctor programs it. The thing hears the tones that do the programming and adjusts its discharges per minute to keep the heart beating at the correct rate. All of this wonderfulness came out of the 1960s space program. That's where it started. We had to design the technology that got us into space, then onto the moon, then into Skylab, then into the Shuttle and finally into the ISS. There were some who said the money we spent on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo was wasted. My mom is alive today because we spent that money all those years ago. I say it would still be a bargain at ten times the price. Even at a hundred times the price...

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Reply #4 - Sep 28^th, 2010 at 7:57am

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Looks like one of those Ipod commercials

. But seriously, that is an interesting look. Always wondered how they were installed

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Reply #5 - Sep 30^th, 2010 at 2:14am

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how does the battery charge? Shocked

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Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2010 at 1:27am

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The battery is a small atomic device I believe.

That is so cool. Thanks for posting.

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Reply #7 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 2:40am

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Hi all! sorry for posting so late but actually I just came back home yesterday after a little stay over in the hospital. It is indeed a pacemaker or actuallu an ICD or Internal Cardiovascular Defiblirator A.K.A. the schocker. The battery is changed between every 3-5 years or in my case roughly every 4 years. Changing it consists oa relatively minor surgery of making a 3 inch or so incision and replacing the unit. The Wires stay put.

Now this last hospital admittance was kind of a hellish story so I'll spare you the details on that. It'll suffice to say that I'm glad to be back at home and at the V!

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Reply #8 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:38am

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..that comes as a big surprise, Soui... Shocked

...!

I've always imagined you to be a very fit, healthy, <25-year-old!

Unusual problem?
Hereditary...same problem for Mum??

Paul.

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Reply #9 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:56am

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Fozzer wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:38am:

..that comes as a big surprise, Soui... Shocked

...!

I've always imagined you to be a very fit, healthy, <25-year-old!

Unusual problem?
Hereditary...same problem for Mum??

Paul.

Not a hereditary problem, I'm the only one in in the famliy who has it.. Was born with this"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot so have always been under check at the hospital. Got my first ICD 8 years ago at the age of 17 since then it has been replaced twice and relocated once. This time though the unit and the wires had to be extracted ( and yes the wires really attach to the body) so that was rather painful.....add some complications and you end up with 23 days in the hospital..... rather annoying.... Never felt better being at home!

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Reply #10 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 9:23am

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Souichiro wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:56am:

Fozzer wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:38am:

..that comes as a big surprise, Soui... Shocked

...!

I've always imagined you to be a very fit, healthy, <25-year-old!

Unusual problem?
Hereditary...same problem for Mum??

Paul.

Not a hereditary problem, I'm the only one in in the famliy who has it.. Was born with this"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot so have always been under check at the hospital. Got my first ICD 8 years ago at the age of 17 since then it has been replaced twice and relocated once. This time though the unit and the wires had to be extracted ( and yes the wires really attach to the body) so that was rather painful.....add some complications and you end up with 23 days in the hospital..... rather annoying.... Never felt better being at home!

Good to know that your are feeling better, Soui... Smiley

...!

..I just stick my finger into the 240 Volt Electrical Socket now and again..
...gives an amazing boost to the heart!... Cool

...!

...and re-energises other dormant parts... Shocked

...

...!

Paul.... Grin

...!

Looked at the diagrams: "Hole in the Heart"?

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Reply #11 - Oct 11^th, 2010 at 1:46am

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skoker wrote on Sep 10^th, 2010 at 4:11pm:

I first saw it and thought it was an ipod. Grin

hehe me too Tongue

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Reply #12 - Oct 11^th, 2010 at 2:19am

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Fozzer wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 9:23am:

Souichiro wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:56am:

Fozzer wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 8:38am:

..that comes as a big surprise, Soui... Shocked

...!

I've always imagined you to be a very fit, healthy, <25-year-old!

Unusual problem?
Hereditary...same problem for Mum??

Paul.

Not a hereditary problem, I'm the only one in in the famliy who has it.. Was born with this"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot so have always been under check at the hospital. Got my first ICD 8 years ago at the age of 17 since then it has been replaced twice and relocated once. This time though the unit and the wires had to be extracted ( and yes the wires really attach to the body) so that was rather painful.....add some complications and you end up with 23 days in the hospital..... rather annoying.... Never felt better being at home!

Good to know that your are feeling better, Soui... Smiley

...!

..I just stick my finger into the 240 Volt Electrical Socket now and again..
...gives an amazing boost to the heart!... Cool

...!

...and re-energises other dormant parts... Shocked

...

...!

Paul.... Grin

...!

Looked at the diagrams: "Hole in the Heart"?

Re-energising dormant parts will only get you into trouble Fozzer, you may end up being the proud owner of an OAP-ASBO Grin

Back to the original subject, Wiki always makes for good reading
"The first clinical implantation into a human of a fully implantable pacemaker was in 1958 at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, using a pacemaker designed by Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Åke Senning, connected to electrodes attached to the myocardium of the heart by thoracotomy. The device failed after three hours. A second device was then implanted which lasted for two days. The world's first implantable pacemaker patient, Arne Larsson, went on to receive 26 different pacemakers during his lifetime. He died in 2001, at the age of 86

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