Abstract
In 1960 the first self-powered pacemaker was implanted in a patient. Since that time, the technology has matured and evolved into a common medical therapy used worldwide to treat bradyarrhythmias. McIlraith and Crozier (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrcr.2022.02.005) shared what may be the world record of a patient who required continuous permanent pacing. The patient was a 36-year-old man who presented with syncope in second-degree heart block type II with a heart rate of 45 beats/min. In 1969 he received a nonprogrammable mercury-zinc battery powered Teletronics P6 pacemaker with a unipolar lead implanted through the right external jugular vein.
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