With the rapid growth in the field of medicine, doctors have invented what they call the world’s smallest leadless pacemaker. Sized as big as a vitamin pill, the forerunner has also been successfully implanted in the heart of a 78-year-old woman in Mumbai, India.
After successful installations in the first two attempts by other hospitals, Saifee Hospital in Mumbai became the third hospital to successfully implant the pill-sized pacemaker. Terming the little device as a boon for the medical industry, the doctors shared the medical benefits of the sinoatrial node.
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According to their observations, the use of these small-sized leadless pacemakers has reduced the risks and complications associated with the routine pacemaker by half, thereby reducing the chances to contract lead infection, pocket infection and venous obstruction among other sets of infections.
Keeping its benefits in mind, this leadless pacemaker has been approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration to serve as the new type of device that can be used to correct Bradycardia and other heart-related ailments with minimal complications.
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