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Cataract surgery
Hi guys, just curious....my husband had a "challenging & difficult" (doctor-speak) cataract surgery the other day, which in the end is a successful one, but I'm curious as the nurse told me the pacer function of his defibrillator kicked in during surgery...wonder why?
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Thanks!
by Music - 2014-08-17 11:08:13
Yup, it was just the PM function...and he was totally anxious as he's legally blind in the other eye, and was worried something would go wrong & he'd be blind....so thanks for the answer! P.
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by donr - 2014-08-16 12:08:32
...work on his synchronization of the ventricles. It also is to restart it if he gets out of rhythm. If it fired the defib function, I'd be concerned, but the rest of it is no problem.
Having been through cataract surgery 5 times, I can promise you that it is extremely stressful, so any number of things could have motivated the PM function to kick in. Stress is not the friend of a heart, even a healthy one.
If he is disturbed, by all means ask the Cardio he sees, but do not expect any sort of answer as to why.
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