Heart-Beat Controlled Electrically
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LONDON, March 31. A 54-year-old Scot whose heart-beat can be electrically controlled, is back at work after an astonishing heart operation, the “Daily Express” reported. When he complained of repeated loss of consciousoess, doctors at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital discovered that a previous heart attack had left him with a pulse rate of less than 40 a minute. So they decided to fit him with a battery-operated device which would control his heart-beat by feeding a pulsating current into it, according to a report in the “Lancet.” Pace-Maker Wires were led from his heart into a transistorised “pace-maker” in a plastic container about l|in long. This container, which included a battery capable of lasting five years, was implanted in the man’s body. The doctors were able to
control the rate of the pacemaker pulse by another instrument operated outside the body—a small coil linked with a black box fitted with switches, and applied to the chest.
The doctors fixed the pacemaker at 60 beats a minute and the man is now fit and back at wonk.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30095, 1 April 1963, Page 10
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