Have you ever worked for a remote or rural department or company and have also worked for a busy city department? Do you feel like you gained different skills because of the amount of time you were with your patients, whether it’s a lot of time or a little? Working for a remote or rural [...]
The History of the Modern Pacemaker and Symptomatic Bradycardia The year was 1952 and Paul Zoll introduced the first transcutaneous cardiac pacemaker to treat symptomatic bradycardia. Six years later, the first successful implantation of a pacemaker was performed in Sweden on Arne Larsson by performing a thoracotomy and suturing 2 epicardial electrodes to the heart. [...]
