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hip replacement surgery with a pacemaker
by dori345, Oct 11, 2009 09:17PM
My mother, who is eighty-one years old, is planning nn having hip joint replacement surgery, but she has a pacemaker to keep her blood pressure from going too low. How dangerous would it be for her to have this surgery and anesthesia? How does the pacemaker affect her during the surgery? Would it be able to control her blood pressure during the surgery? If not,could she go into shock because of this?
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by caregiver222, Oct 12, 2009 02:17PM
An electrial pacemaker replaces the atrial node in signaling the heart to contract. There are many kinds of pacemakers. This situation is not the first time a person with a pacemaker has had to undergo surgury. Trust the doctors and the anaesthesiologist to know what they are doing. There are risks in all surguries, however there is no reason to worry excessively. As long as they maintain blood volume and monitor oxygenation and arterial blood gases (which they are very good at) there is little liklihood of shock.
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