- Title: U.K.: NUCLEAR-POWERED HEART PACEMAKER USED
- Date: 24th July 1970
- Summary: WOMAN IN GARDEN; PACEMAKER COMPONENTS; DR. POOLE TRANSCRIPT: REPORTER: "How close in fact to the patient's heart does the unit become implanted?" DR POOLE: "Well, the position of implantation depends very much on where the surgeon wants to put it and what kind of electrodes he's using. The particular one like this that we've using. The particular one like this that we've used is implanted about here on the right breast, and the connections from it are lead up to the neck and down through a vein into the heart." REPORTER: "In what way does the pacemaker affect the heart?" DR POOLE: "The pacemaker supplies a small electrical shock to the heart 70 times a minute and so forces the ventricle to beat in a heart in which the ventricle has otherwise become disconnected from the auricle electrically. The shock is about a 3 to 5-volt shock lasting for a thousandth of a second, so it's really a very minute one." Initials OJP/PW/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: HARWELL & LONDON, U.K.
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- Country: United Kingdom
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