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My mom is having surgery tomorrow afternoon for Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device that briefly passes an electric current through the heart. It is "implanted," or put in your body surgically. It includes a pulse generator and one or more leads. The pulse generator constantly watches the heartbeat like a small computer that runs on a battery. The lead is a wire from the pulse generator to the inside of the heart which takes signals from the heart to the ICD and then takes an electric current from the pulse generator to the heart.
The most amazing thing is, she will not have a general anesthetic! She will stay in the hospital overnight and go home the next morning! (With this level of technology, I'm guessing they'll beam her home).
It seems it will be a fairly simple ordeal, but we'll take your prayers nonetheless.
My mom is having surgery tomorrow afternoon for Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device that briefly passes an electric current through the heart. It is "implanted," or put in your body surgically. It includes a pulse generator and one or more leads. The pulse generator constantly watches the heartbeat like a small computer that runs on a battery. The lead is a wire from the pulse generator to the inside of the heart which takes signals from the heart to the ICD and then takes an electric current from the pulse generator to the heart.
The most amazing thing is, she will not have a general anesthetic! She will stay in the hospital overnight and go home the next morning! (With this level of technology, I'm guessing they'll beam her home).
It seems it will be a fairly simple ordeal, but we'll take your prayers nonetheless.
posted by Jan at 1:39 PM
1 Comments:
Simple procedure or not, it is still a stressful ordeal for all those involved.
I pray that all goes well.
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