Collapsed lung

Hi has anyone had a collapsed lung after pacemaker? There were 2 other people in my ward with collapsed lung after having a similar procedure and they had all been done at the same hospital. Does this seem excessive as I thought it was a low percentage complication.

3 Comments

extremely excessive

by Tracey_E - 2017-06-03 13:35:08

All complications combined are less than 4% of new pacemaker implants. Of complications, collapsed lung is a very small percentage of those. 

Collapsed lung

by shelee - 2017-06-04 14:03:33

I live in the U.K. I signed a consent form which listed collapsed lung as a risk. However I feel I do need to take this further. Not quite sure how to go about this though.

Thanks

by shelee - 2017-06-06 10:49:39

Thanks everyone for your advice.

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