Introduction
Magnetic materials are categorised as either hard or soft. A soft magnet material is easy to magnetise/demagnetise, whereas hard magnetic materials retain their magnetic properties after being magnetised. Permanent magnets are made up of hard magnetic materials which is able to create its own persistent magnetic field once magnetised. They can be made in different sizes and strength and thus, making them implantable into the body without anatomical restriction.
Different kind of magnets are nowadays being used in medical application from magnets for retention to guides for catheters in brain surgery. Due to the increased development of permanent magnets more and more magnetic materials are being used in medical applications. These report will concentrate on the medical devices such as Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices (CRMD): pacemakers implantable, cardio defibrillators and bone distraction. These applications use activation magnets which is contained in a medical device which is then implanted into the human body. As medical device is exposed to an external magnetic field they either activate or deactivate the device. Since the magnetic material is used inside the body it has to be able to perform an appropriate response in the host in the given application. This is often achieved with encapsulation of the magnetic material in order to stop any interference of the magnet with the body which also ultimately eliminates risk of corrosion1.
Implantable Pacemaker
An implantable pacemaker is used to assist the normal contraction rhythm of the heart when the heart’s own generated electrical impulses become impaired which is caused by heart block – delay or no conduction between atria and ventricle.
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In this lab, I took two recordings of my heart using an electrocardiogram. An electrocardiogram, EKG pg. 628 Y and pg. 688 D, is a recording of the heart's electrical impulses, action potentials, going through the heart. The different phases of the EKG are referred to as waves; the P wave, QRS Complex, and the T wave. These waves each signify the different things that are occurring in the heart. For example, the P wave occurs when the sinoatrial (SA) node, aka the pacemaker, fires an action potential. This causes the atria, which is currently full of blood, to depolarize and to contract, aka atrial systole. The signal travels from the SA node to the atrioventricular (AV) node during the P-Q segment of the EKG. The AV node purposefully delays
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Cardiac monitoring has been available since the early 1960s (Henriques-Forsythe, Ivonye, Jamched, Kamuguisha, Olejeme & Onwuanyi, 2009). George, Walsh-Irwin, Queen, Vander Heuvel, Hawkins, & Roberts (2015) explain, “Remote telemetry monitoring is the monitoring of cardiac rhythms of acute care inpatients from a central locate by personnel who are not directly involved with patient care” (p. 11). Researchers and authors published a multitude of articles, best practices, and standards for hospital monitoring (Drew, 2004, Funk, 2010). A basic internet query reveals injuries and deaths related to remote telemetry monitoring. Guidelines, best practices, and research provide the best evidence in the delivery of safe quality care
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Lidwell and Edgar H. Booth invented the first pacemaker. It was a portable device that consisting of two poles, one of which included a needle that would be plunged into a cardiac chamber. It was very crude, but it succeeded in reviving a stillborn baby at a Sydney hospital in 1928. The decades that followed, inventors came up with increasingly sophisticated versions of the pacemaker. However, these devices; which relied upon vacuum tubes; remained heavy and bulky, affording little or no mobility for patients. Colombian electrical engineer Jorge Reynolds Pombo developed a pacemaker in 1958 weighed 99 lbs and was powered by a 12-volt auto battery. Surgeons at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden were the first to place a fully implantable device into a patient in 1958. Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Ake Senning invented this pacemaker, which was implanted in the chest of Arne Larsson. The first device failed after three hours, the second after two days. Larsson would have 26 different pacemakers implanted in him. He died at the age of 86 in 2001, outliving both Elmqvist and Senning. In the world there are many heart attacks and as people grow they can get abnormalities in there heart(Medlineplus). When someone 's heart stops working it can be fixed with a pacemaker, it makes the heart beat properly. The artificial pacemaker is a wonder of modern science. A small, implantable device that regulates a human heartbeat through electrical impulses have saved millions of lives. The development of this vital medical device owes much to the advances in electronics and communications brought about by the Space Age.Pacemakers may be used for people who have heart problems that cause their heart to beat too slowly. A slow heartbeat is called Bradycardia two common problems that cause a slow heartbeat are sinus node disease and heart block. When your heart
Some treatments can be used. An electronic pace-maker can be inserted and it will send electronic impulse to the heart stimulating it to beat at a normal rhythm. Pace-makers are only inserted when the heart beats too slow. Tachycardis can also be very serious. It can lead to disabling symptoms and even death.
Cardiac dysrhythmias come in different degrees of severity. There are heart conditions that you are able to live with and manage on a daily basis and those that require immediate attention. Atrial Fibrillation is one of the more frequently seen types of dysrhythmias (NIH, 2011). The best way to diagnosis a heart condition is by reading a cardiac strip (Ignatavicius &Workman, 2013). Cardiac strips play an chief part in the nursing world allowing the nurse and other trained medical professionals to interpret what the heart is doing. In a normal strip, one can clearly identify a P wave before every QRS complex, which is then followed by a T wave; in Atrial Fibrillation, the Sinoatrial node fires irregularly causing there to be no clear P wave and an irregular QRS complex (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013). Basically, it means that the atria, the upper chambers of the heart, are contracting too quickly and no clear P wave is identified because of this ‘fibrillation’ (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013).
Implantation of devices into the human body dates back to the ancient Egyptian practice of inserting seashells into the jaw to replace missing teeth. Despite this, it was not until the twentieth century that implanted devices, such as pacemakers, artificial hip
Torque force a bit different from translation attraction, torque forces aligns the magnetized objects to the static magnetic force of the main magnet (Chung, 2002). Torque force is at the peak in the centre of MRI magnet bore and creating a hazards environment for non-compatible objects (Capizzani, 2009; Ng et al., 2003). Permanent damage may occur to sensitive devices such as pacemaker. Torque effect is strong enough to cause implant displacement and have the potential of life threating condition for patients (Ng et al., 2003).
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