can pacemakers help slow a heart rate down?

Answer 1

Pacemakers can TRY to slow rates down (called capturing) but if the heart is determined to run fast it will. An electronic implanted pacemaker will generally not be very effective at stopping a fast rhythm. Medications are used to slow the rate down - typically digoxin, b-blockers, calcium channel blockers, are commonly used as well as other anti-arrhythmics less commonaly. Pacemakers are used to pick up a slow rhythm or extreme pauses and can be set to sense and start activating at any rate or interval you may want to select.

Under extreme cases where medication is not effective at slowing the rate or if the patient is intolerant to the medication, then an ablation (that is, a laser is used to distroy pathways or centers generating or transmitting a beat) is used to accomplish control. The patient then becomes "pacer dependent" and relies on entirely on the pacemaker to generate a beat.

Answer 2

Pacemakers can slow a heart rate down. Pacemakers are usually implanted in your chest when your natural pacemaker is damaged. People who need pacemakers generally have some type of arrythmia(abnormal beat). Arrythmias can be skipped beats, to fast or slow heart rate, or other heart abnormalities.

Answer 3

Pacemakers do no longer decrease blood stress. A pacemaker will save your coronary heart fee from going to low. some newer pacemakers will "resynchronize" the ventricles of the midsection and help some those with coronary heart failure experience greater powerful.

Answer 4

Yes they can;