multiple firings

On avg how many times should these things go off in a day or a week

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Multiple Firings

by Bub - 2007-10-17 10:10:05

Richard,

I don't think there are any hard and fast answers to your question. For starters, what do you have? Is it a pacemaker or a defibrillator?

If it is a pacemaker your question should not be necessary as you should never feel a PM when it goes on line to assist maintaining your heart rate at some specified level. If you can feel it, see your doctor as adjustments are needed,

If you have a defibrillator, it should fire only when your heart goes into ventricular fibrillation. Since I understand a D-Fib unit firing can be anything from an attention getter to downright painful, I hope yours seldom fires.

If you can give us a little more information on what you have and the reason for your question, I'm sure someone here can give you more and better answers than these.

Bub

ICD

by thomast - 2007-10-18 12:10:09

I received by bi-ven unit in May of 05. It fired twice in July of 05 while I was trimming a hedge. They made a change to the program, then it fired once in Sept 0f 05, they again made a change and it has not fired since Sept of 05. I take Tikosyn, coreg accupril ,and coumnadin, so far the medications are controling it.

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