PACEMAKERS AND AICDS, TO MAGNET OR NOT TO MAGNET │ EP123
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Episode PACEMAKERS AND AICDS, TO MAGNET OR NOT TO MAGNET │ EP123
Welcome to the Atomic Anesthesia podcast hosted by CRNA professor Dr. Rhea Temmermand and Co-Founder Sachi Lord. On this show, you'll hear clear, clinically grounded discussions designed for nurse anesthesia residents and CRNAs who want to feel more confident in complex pharmacology, physiology, and real-world anesthesia decision-making.
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Letter codes, electrocautery, and a magnet that does something different depending on the device. Pacemakers and ICDs show up in almost every OR, and on boards. In Week 3 of our 12-week SEE/NCE series, we boil it down to two questions: what is this device doing for the patient, and what will electrical noise do to it?
In this episode:
• Pacemaker vs ICD, plus resynchronization, leadless and subcutaneous devices • The pacemaker code letter by letter, and the modes you'll actually see (AAI, VVI, DDD, DOO) • Why pacemaker dependence is the most important question you can ask • What electrocautery does to pacemakers and ICDs, and monopolar vs bipolar cautery • What a magnet does to a pacemaker vs an ICD, with board-style scenarios • Preoperative device evaluation and the intraoperative and postoperative plan
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