Who Needs Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator? by Best Cardiologist In Delhi

Who have heart disease with a compromised pumping of the heart means the pumping ability of the heart is less than 35%. You must talk to the Best Cardiologist Doctor In Delhi about the need for a device that is called an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

This is what is called an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. And this is what it looks like. It has a small device, which is like a matchbox. This device is implanted Under the Skin. Just like we make up. We have a pocket in our Shirts, we make a little pocket under the collar bone. And we insert this device. This device with the help of one wire or a lead, as we call it. It is connected to the heart. We must remember that this device is called an implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator as the name implies is implantable and hence is called implanted.

It has a unique ability of cardioversion and defibrillation. If any of you wants to know, we can connect later, but it’s a very intelligent device. It is as if a very intelligent doctor is in your chest wall, it is as if in an emergency room, the doctor is walking with you everywhere. You feel very confident because if you were to have an episode of sudden Cardiac Arrest because you had a risk for it, the implantable defibrillator before, anybody knows diagnosis, that and treats it by treats it, by giving you a therapy, which you may not perceive, which is called anti-tachycardia pacing, or it may give a little shock therapy.

Right. So My Question Is What Is Shock Therapy

All you need to know is, I’m sure when you watch movies, you see that somebody when they are passing away, you see? A big machine, is brought into the hospital setting and we put two paddles in the chest wall and we give a shock therapy. So that’s what we call the shock. That is delivered from outside. So you are aware that in the hospitals. You see those big defibrillators. Obviously. Nobody can have those big things in your homes. Who will give those sharks? All of that. The little big device is compacted into this little device, which is called a defibrillator implantable.

This has been around since 1885 we have been aggressively using them. We have been advocating for them. For those of our patients who deserve them. They are battery-operated devices and these devices last approximately six to nine years. Depending upon the usage. They are battery-operated devices and these devices. Once implanted can be interrogated, externally by visiting a pacemaker Clinic, which is there in all major hospitals, and every six months, we get the devices. In fact, these devices are extremely intelligent. These devices have a unique ability today to remain connected with your doctor, and your doctor can get the information every morning when he wakes up.

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Dr. Aparna Jaswal Top Heart Specialist Doctor in India…#fortis