The reuse of cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators: A convoluted history in an era of global health
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, ISSN: 1540-8167, Vol: 34, Issue: 4, Page: 781-789
2023
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Following the development of permanent transvenous cardiac pacing in the 1960s, the costs of pacemakers quickly led to their reuse in both developed countries and in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). Legal, ethical, and industrial factors gradually resulted in the termination of reuse in developed countries. Without health care budgets to pay for costly pacemaker technologies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other groups have provided support to physicians and hospitals treating patients with heart block in LMICs. Multiple other academic and private groups have also assisted such patients in LMICs. Pacemaker companies have provided physicians and hospitals with new devices (that have an expired package date or through charitable donations). Greater care of preparing and cleaning refurbished devices have demonstrated overwhelmingly the safety and effectiveness of reused devices. More recently, cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators have also been reused in patients in LMICs. While the globalization of noncommunicable diseases continues, patients with rhythm disorders in LMICs can no longer be left behind. While patients in developed countries only receive new devices to treat rhythm disorders, the practice of reused cardiac implantable electronic devices will expand in LMICs, until equal access to device technologies be made available to all.
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