Dujiangyan People's Hospital: Centennial elderly people implant permanent heart pacemaker

Recently, He Dan, chief physician of Cardiovascular Medicine of the People's Hospital of Dujiangyan City, led the heart -fighting team to implant a permanent pacemaker for a centenarians. Ten days after the operation, the centenarians were discharged from the hospital. This refreshed the age record of the biggest patients of the heart pacemaker implantation surgery of Dujiangyan City.

It is understood that the 100 -year -old Grandpa Wang usually has a good physical condition and can basically take care of himself in daily life. But in recent times, the elderly often felt dizzy, panic, fatigue, and breath, thinking that it was the reason for getting older. Therefore, the elderly did not go to the hospital to see a doctor until they fainted before they were persuaded to the hospital for further examination.

After admission, the doctor found that Grandpa Wang had a very slow heartbeat, only about 40 times per minute, and he had a heart stopping and sudden death at any time. After inspection, the doctor diagnosed the elderly: Ⅲ -degree room conduction block, and fainting was caused by sudden heartbeat.

Yang Qinyu, the attending physician of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of the hospital, said that for Grandpa Wang, the resettlement pacemaker is a clinical necessary treatment method, but the elderly are very old and the functions of various organs are reduced. At the same time A variety of diseases such as infection, heart failure, thoracic effusion, and subdivis of hard membrane accumulation increase the difficulty of surgical operations.

"Because the elderly are older and the basic situation is not good, there are many risks such as cardiac arrest, Aste syndrome, acute left heart failure, pneumothorax, thrombosis, vascular resusions, etc. during the operation. Plan, think about the problems and solutions that may be encountered. It is very important to make full preparation. "After careful analysis and discussion of the hospital's cardiac internal cardiac, after obtaining the consent of my and their families, it was decided to be the elderly for the elderly Practice is performed.

On the day of the surgery, the doctor left a 5 cm size incision under the skin of the armpit, resettle the electrode to the heart cavity, and put the pacemaker of the men's watch in the subcutaneous bag ... in the subcutaneous bag ... With the accurate operation of the team's medical staff and the cooperation of the forces, the old man's operation was successfully completed in just one hour.

After the operation, Grandpa Wang's heart rate has been stabilized at about 60 times/minute. Symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath have been significantly relieved, and never fainted. "I really did not expect that the current medical technology has developed so fast that there is no need to open the heart. A small pacemaker has solved the heart problem of my centenarian father. My father's happiness is still long! "Mr. Wang said with emotion as a companion representative of the old man. Behind Grandpa's re -obtaining "Heart" was the love relay of the heart of the Cardiovascular Department of the People's Hospital of Dujiangyan City and the love of the heart of the heart. (Xia Wenfeng Wang Houjun)

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