Artificial cardiac pacemaker
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artificial-cardiac-pacemaker-187-14627150
title:
Artificial cardiac pacemaker
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An artificial cardiac pacemaker, commonly referred to as simply a pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart. Each pulse causes the targeted chamber(s) to contract and pump blood, thus regulating the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an even heart rate, either because the heart's natural cardiac pacemaker provides an inadeq
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Medical device for artificially stimulating heart contractions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cardiac_pacemaker
date created:
2002-09-05T05:43:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:46:25Z
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