Medical Devices used in Cardiovascular System | Pepgra.com

1. MEDICAL DEVICES USED IN CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Pepgra Group:  www.pepgra.com Email: sales.cro@pepgra.com

2. Today's Discussion OUTLINE OF TOPICS Introduction Types of Medical Devices Implantable Cardiovascular Defibrillator Pacemaker Implantable Loop Recorder

3. Introduction To resolve any medical purpose or to diagnose any health related issues, the involvement of specific Medical Device Consulting Services is essential. For different usage purpose different medical devices are available which differentiates its significant role in specific diagnoses. Hence, medical device manufacturers manufacture specific medical devices to detect specific disease. Similar to the drug approval, the design of medical device also gets approval from Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

4. Types of Medical Devices Usually the disease onset occurs with known reasons by alarming our body, but cardiovascularis one such system which does not send any signals before any onset of the symptoms like chest pain, cardiac arrest etc. Hence it is necessary to diagnose a person who visits diagnostic labs for a routine check-up prior to any damage to the cardiovascular system. There are various types of medical devices available in the diagnostic labs to treat damage in the cardiovascular system. Such as implantable cardiovascular defibrillator (ICD), pacemaker, biventricular pacemaker, and implantable cardiac loop recorder.

5. Implantable Cardiovascular Defibrillator Some patients experience fast and irregular heartbeats, which can be diagnosed with an implantable cardiovascular defibrillator (ICD), a cardiac medical device. This device detects if the blood pumping process has stopped in the lower chambers of heart ventricles. For such patients ICD along with biventricular pacemaker is implanted inside the patient’s body under the collarbone which when senses abnormal heart rate. It automatically sends electrical pulses internally to the heart and blows back the heart’s rhythm to normal condition.

6. Pacemaker A pacemaker is a small single device that is arranged inside the heart tissue to send signals to release the abnormal cardiac rhythm seen in bradycardia to normalize pulse rate. This device is powered by battery, when the natural pacemaker of heart fails to beat normally, the artificial pacemaker mimics as natural pacemaker and executes heart’s normal function. Another pacemaker is known as biventricular pacemaker, placed on both the sides at right and left ventricles of heart. Heart failures like cardiomyopathy develops due to weak and stretched heart muscles explains the severity of heart beat.

7. Implantable Loop Recorder The implantable loop recorder (ILR) is an intravenous monitoring medical device which is used to detect electrical pulses in the heart for a long period of time when compared with the constant electrical activity found in the ECGs. It helps in identifying the specific reason why there is a palpitation, assessing bradycardia episodes before implanting a permanent pacemaker, and it checks the average heart rate in atrial fibrillation and so on. Hence, this practice is a novel chance for physicians to check the systematic heart rhythm screening with possible effects on patients undergoing antiarrhythmic and anticoagulant therapy management.

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