Artificial cardiac pacemakers are surgically put into a patient who is having heart problems. The pacemakers produce an impulse to the heart to get it beating at the right pace. There are different types of pacemakers including the transcutaneous pacemaker which is a procedure of putting pacing pads on the patient’s chest.
The rate of the pace is determined and set in the pads. This does not require surgery because it is an external pacing. This is a less severe technique of requiring a pacemaker.
The type of rhythms that are needed for this type of help for the heart are for those that have third degree heart block or bradycardia with signs of poor perfusion. Other more severe heart cases would need surgical procedures to install a pacemaker.
Third degree heart block Bradycardia with signs of poor perfusion
First degree heart block does not require treatment. Asystole requires CPR. Third degree heart block requires a pacemaker. Bradycardia with signs of poor perfusion requires a pacemaker. Atrial fibrillation requires meds or cardioversion.
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