Elias opted for , often called a "Biventricular Pacemaker."
Elias opened the first file. Mrs. Gable was eighty-two, a retired piano teacher whose heart had begun to "stutter," as she put it. Her EKG showed a classic Third-Degree Heart Block—the electrical signals from her atria were simply not reaching her ventricles. Her heart was a house where the upstairs and downstairs had stopped speaking. A Case-Based Approach to Pacemakers, ICDs, and ...
Elias remembered the procedure—the small incision below the collarbone, the threading of the leads through the subclavian vein. He had placed one lead in the right atrium and another in the right ventricle. When he turned the device on, the jagged, chaotic lines on the monitor smoothed into a rhythmic, artificial grace. Elias opted for , often called a "Biventricular Pacemaker