Five common permanent cardiac pacemaker complications
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Permanent cardiac pacemaker: an emergency perspective
Correspondence to: Lam Chi Wang, MBChB, FRCS(Edin) Prince of Wales Hospita l , Accident and Emergency Department, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Email: [email protected] The number of patients with permanent pacemaker are increasing and may present into the emergency department with a variety of complications and malfunctions. The presence of a pacemaker may also affect management of unrelated medic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nursing Critical Care
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1558-447X
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccn.0000534926.85924.91