What happens when battery needs to be changed

Ive been going to the pacemaker clinic for the past 3 months because they say they cannot change my ICD until it reaches 2.63 on the battery. I am at 2.64. What will happen when it reaches 2.63? Will an alarm sound? or will it wait until I go get it checked again? It was originally place 3/16/2010 but in June of 2011 misread my pvc's for vf so I was given 14 shocks while I was fully awake. Traumatic to say the least. I had to be put into vf to resync it. Then I had a pocket revision July 2014. All of this has made my battery not last that long. Can someone give me insight on what happens when the battery reaches the limit?
Thank you!

2 Comments

A shot in the dark

by oldearthworm - 2015-10-27 01:10:53

As a somewhat educated guess .. nothing... Strikes me as a bit silly that the PM battery (actually the whole ball of wax) is not changed at 2.64 rather than 2.63 ....I imagine that this number is 'volts' ..
Hopefully, in the future, The PM battery will become permanent and rechargeable, via electrical energy transference "thru the skin" .."They" are probably working on this right now ....

ICD Replacement for battery

by Rogeroz - 2015-10-31 01:10:28

I am currently recovering from a replacement implant that happened 2 days ago.Fortunately my old Medtronic Virtuoso has only had to shock me once (probably because I should have been on beta blockers at the time) so my battery lasted from 2008. As the battery was nearing its end of life, the Medtronic technician showed me the low battery level warning alarm that would go off at a pre programmed time (I think in my case it was 5:30 am) it simply indicated it was time to set up a replacement....no panic. I don't know what device you have, but you can check to see if that is the case for you.As it happens, I wanted to get on with it before Christmas so at about 2.6 something I had it done, I'm not absolutely sure about this but it I think it can go down to about 2.4 volts tops better check that out with your tech guys.Here in Australia, we get Medicare assistance and as I understand it, they don't want us to move too hastily when there is still some good battery time left !

You know you're wired when...

Your old device becomes a paper weight for your desk.

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