[Swiss pacemaker statistics for 1987/1988]

In the annual pacemaker survey, covering practically all pacemakers implanted in Switzerland (implanted in 43 hospitals in 1987 and in 46 in 1988), the number of first implants in 1987 was 226 and in 1988 238 per million population. Clinical indications, ECG indications and etiology have undergone no significant changes in the last 3 years. Within the pacing systems used, however, there has been a relative increase in physiological pacemakers to 10% and in rate adaptive pacemakers to 19%. At the present time there are some 10,000 patients with a cardiac pacemaker in this country.