[Development of pacemaker implantation]

The Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome and the possibility of the excitability of a heart standing still by electric current are already known for a long time. Nevertheless, only in 1952 first success in the treatment in man was seen. In 1958 the first transistorized, working with battery cardiac pacemakers were implanted. The development of the impulse supply for the permanent and temporary stimulation, of the infloating technique, of the impulse production, the source of energy and the working method are demonstrated. In a tabulated survey the comparison of the cardiac pacemakers which are annually implanted in the GDR with those ones in the County Hospital St. George Leipzig is done.