ICD available.withoput leads

Dear Friends I an 75 years old retired Air Force Officerand was fitted with above aicd in sept2008. There was infectio and had to be removed in 2011after open heart as the lead was embedded.I am fine now and the machine is lying with me.At times it gives beep sound and am not aware if the same is serviceable or not.

I AM WILLING TO GIVE IT TO ANY ONE NEEDING THIS MACHINEAS LONG AS THE RECEPIENT IS POOR OR HAS NO ONE TO LOOK AFTER THE PATIENT.or he is old and infirm.

Please contact me at mlb@live.in

2 Comments

This may help

by IAN MC - 2012-12-09 01:12:29

Hello Vetran Last year I posted the following message regarding the re-use of Pacemakers in India. The article did go on to say that they will only re-use PM's with at least 3 years of battery life .

I'm sure that if you contact the authors of this paper or the cardiology units in Mumbai they will be able to advise you

Best of luck

Ian

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Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pacemakersandimplantabledefibrillators.html]
THURSDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Reusing pacemakers from dead patients is safe and effective, according to a new study.

It involved 53 heart patients in Mumbai, India, who received pacemakers donated by the families of deceased American patients. The pacemakers were sterilized before they were implanted in the Indian patients.

After receiving the pacemakers, all the patients were alive and doing well, according to Dr. Gaurav Kulkarni, currently of Loyola University Medical Center, and colleagues.

During two years of follow-up, there were no infections or other major complications and none of the pacemakers failed. All but two patients reported significant improvements in their symptoms. All four patients who were previously employed returned to work, and 27 female patients said their symptoms improved enough that they could resume household chores.

The study appears online and in an upcoming print issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.

The Indian patients had severe heart rhythm disorders called complete heart block and sick sinus syndrome, which left them gasping for breath and exhausted after the slightest physical exertion, the researchers said in a Loyola news release.

Without a pacemaker, the patients would have died within weeks or months. But a pacemaker costs $2,200 to $6,600 in India, far more than the patients could afford.

The pacemaker donations began as a humanitarian project but the physicians involved later decided to conduct a formal study of the safety and effectiveness of the reused pacemakers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration prohibit reusing pacemakers in the United States, but no such law exists in India, according to the release.

SOURCE: Loyola Medicine, news release, Dec. 1, 2011
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Murica

by ReWired - 2012-12-11 12:12:07

As an American, we have some of the most stupid ass laws in the world, cannot reuse a pacemaker but you can reuse a actual heart, lung, and so on! Money is where it is.

Now, you can be poor as dirt and get one for free, but if your a working class Joe, working check to check and cannot afford the high insurance rates then your out of luck, go into poverty and get one for free off the back of Joe working check to check.

You know you're wired when...

Your device makes you win at the slot machines.

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