Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bangalore
(*Corresponding author) email id: *drlakshmi123@gmail.com, 2ksbharathi@gmail.com
With increasing longevity, there is a change in the cohort of cardiac patients. Elderly patients with comorbidities may be encountered in clinical practice. In patients with a pacemaker undergoing non-cardiac surgery, electromagnetic interference can alter the function of pacemaker. Additional concern during open-heart surgery leads displacement with venous cannulation, electrical activity during cardioplegia, damage to device with defibrillation. Management of such patients calls for a multidisciplinary effort involving cardiologist, electrophysiologist, device manufacturer anaesthesiologist a (and) surgeon.
Cardioplegia, Electromagnetic interference, Lead displacement, Pacemaker, Reprogramming
