SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.8 issue4Control of Heart Rate, Energy Intake and Quality of Sleep in Dancers of Classical DanceStudies Regarding Social Representations About High Blood Presure in Cuba author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista Finlay

On-line version ISSN 2221-2434

Abstract

ECHAZABAL LEAL, Magdiel; CRUZ SOSA, Raiko; HERNANDEZ DE LEóN, Néstor  and  DIAZ NARANJO, Jany. Clinical Characteristics of Patients who had Implants, an Re-implant or Generator Changes in Permanent Pacemakers. Rev. Finlay [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.4, pp.291-298. ISSN 2221-2434.

Foundation: cardiac pacemakers are being used frequently and during the last 20 years there have been described more indications for its use. In Cuba 2500 devices of this kind each year. Objective: to determine some clinical characteristics related to the procedure realized to patients with permanent pacemaker implants, re-implants or generator changes at the University General Hospital Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima de Cienfuegos. Method: a cross descriptive study was done in series of cases, to a universe of 225 patients, who had an implant, re-implants or generator changes surgery at Service of Cardiology of the University General Hospital Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima de Cienfuegos, between July 2016 and June 2018. The variable used were: age, sex, diagnosis for inserting a pacemaker, cause for changing the system or the generator, need of transient pacemaker, way of implant and mode of stimulation. Data processing was done by the statistic System SSPS 15.0 and Excel Microsoft. The results are expressed in tables through frequency and percentages. Results: with a predominance of the male sex, the age rate between 71 and 80 years old, the way of vein access was left subclavian, the most frequent implant reason was atrioventricular block degree III. The most frequent complication was pocket hematoma. Conclusions: pacemaker implantation is more common in elderly male patients. Third degree atrioventricular block, in the generator change the exhaustion of the battery of this. There were few complications.

Keywords : pacemakers artificial.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License