Leadless Pacemaker Technology in Louisville, KY

Someone would need a pacemaker usually because their heart rate is too slow. It can be because they have trouble generating heartbeats, or they may have a problem with conducting the heartbeats. Traditionally, a pacemaker was always kind of a battery and computer that were placed on the chest wall under the skin, and then leads were ran down to the heart, and that's how it connected with the heart and monitored the heartbeat, and if needed, gave pacing therapy. But things have changed over the last few years.

We now have new types of pacemakers that we're doing, leadless pacemakers, where the pacemaker itself is a wireless device placed directly into the heart tissue. We've known for a long time that wires and leads are probably the weakest part of the pacemaker. Eliminating that gives a very highly reliable pacing system and just removes a point of failure. It also is a very efficient way of pacing, so the the battery life is very good over a decade, if not up to fifteen years.

Patients really love Lila's pacemakers. They like the fact that there's no evidence that they have a pacemaker. The cosmetic appearance of the device is is very nice, you know, and it it allows them to really go on with their life. Many times in clinic, patients come for follow-up and they tell me, doc, I I actually completely forgot that I had this. I'm just living my life, and they really enjoy that part of the device.