Consultant Cardiologist Dr Mark Mason discusses the exciting new developments in heart pacemakers:
“A pacemaker is a small electrical device that sends out electrical pulses to keep the heart beating regularly. Conventional pacemakers have wires that go into the heart and these are connected to a generator placed under the skin.
However we are now starting to get “wireless” pacemakers. These are small capsules that are implanted in the heart through the leg and which contain all the workings of a pacemaker, with a battery life of about 10 years. These are currently quite basic but there is huge potential for increasingly complex ways of making the heart work better by implanted capsules within the heart communicating with each other. As a Cardiologist I am very excited by this new technology.”
Dr Mark Mason
