MEDEVIS

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GMDN related code(s)

47264

Dual-chamber implantable pacemaker, demand (A battery-powered device consisting of a hermetically-sealed pulse generator, implanted beneath the skin of the chest in a surgically-created pocket, with pacing leads in or on two chambers of the heart (right atrium and ventricle). It is intended to stimulate the two chambers to beat in their natural sequence, to mimic the normal heart's activity, by generating and conducting electrical impulses to the heart when it senses the electrical activity in the chambers are abnormal [e.g., when the heart beats too slowly (bradycardia) or has other abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias)]; it is not intended to provide defibrillation therapy.)

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Decommissioning

https://youtu.be/D7TycnSGGXc https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/330095

WHO resources on medical devices

Interagency list of priority medical devices for essential interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health WHO list of priority medical devices for cancer management WHO List of Priority Medical Devices for management of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes WHO List of Priority medical devices list for the COVID-19 response and associated technical specifications Package of eye care interventions Trauma and Emergency Surgery Kit (TESK) 2019 WHO medical devices website WHO priority medical devices website WHO essential in vitro diagnostic website

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Pacemaker, implantable, dual-chamber