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Ann Thorac Surg 1978;25:558-560
© 1978 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Clinical Trials with One Type of Lithium Pacemaker Generator

W.G. Trapp, M.D.*, C.A. Taunton, M.Sc.

Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Accepted for publication November 22, 1977.

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Trapp, Hyperbaric Research Unit, University of British Columbia, 700 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1L5

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (CPI) solid-state, lithium-powered pulse generators were implanted in 100 patients by one surgeon in a twenty-eight-month period. Eleven CPI pacer generators were replaced, none due to pacer failure. Ninety-nine percent of the patients were followed for a total of 1,397.55 patient-months; 12 patients died, but no deaths appeared to be pacemaker related. The average age of the patients at the time of implantation was 72.8 years. If the warranty period of six years is achieved, the number of pacemaker generator changes required by many of the patients in this group could foreseeably be zero.






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