What is the cardiac infection?
pacemaker infection is a bacterial infection that affects the area around the cardiostimulator battery, just below the skin on the wall of the chest; the area around the wires leading from the heart to the battery; or a combination of these two. This is most likely due to external contamination within the first few days to weeks after the implantation of the pacemaker. It may also occur after any invasive procedure involving pacemaker, including battery change, wire repair or cardiac catheterization. It can be used to treat bradycardia, a heart rhythm of the well below 60 beats per minute or tachycardia, which is a heart rate that is too fast. A temporary pacemaker can be used to temporarily regulate heart rate and infections are more common with these devices, some of which remain outside the body. Signs of such an infection includePain and fever. A pacemaker infection may also disrupt the efficiency of the pacemaker and can ensure that the device removes the device.
The primary cardiac infection is most often a deep infection in the pocket of the leather made for equipment or in the tissue surrounding the area. It can be traced to a contaminated device or bacterial contamination at a time when the device was implanted. These infections are rare due to sterile surgical conditions involved in the cardiac implantation procedure.
secondary pacemaker infections may occur around the tissue where the device is located or where the wires rest; This is the result that bacteria enter the blood system. For example, patients who have developed abroad or blood infections, cuts or dental work may have the same migration bacteria and cause cardiac infection. Such cardiac infections are more common and mOhou be undiagnosed, leading to endocarditis, which is a serious infection of the muscle layers of the heart.
Localized pacemaker infection that has redness and swelling around the place of insertion or pocket of the skin that holds the device will be treated with intravenous antibiotics for 14 to 21 days. Any apparent drainage from the site will be cultivated to ensure that the antibiotics used are right to treat bacteria. More serious pacemaker infections, including wires, skin pocket surrounding the device or systemic blood infection from another source must be treated with aggressive antibiotic therapy and surgical removal of a contaminated device. A temporary external pacemaker may be needed, while the infection is eliminated before a clean, sterile new device can be implanted.