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25 years of implanted intracardiac pacers
1Department of Surgery, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Lancet (London, England)
|March 19, 1988
Abstract:
In 1962, a simplified method of transvenously inserting an intracardiac electrode and implanting the whole pacemaker system under local anaesthesia was reported from the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. This simplified method has been universally adopted and pacemakers are now probably implanted too freely in many places. In the Stockholm area pacemakers are implanted half as frequently as in the rest of Sweden and as often as in the United Kingdom.