Annales de cardiologie et d'angéiologie
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Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) · Feb 2018
Case Reports[When the patient calls the SAMU because his pacemaker is making "beep-beep". Study on physicians' knowledge on pacemaker sound alarm].
More than 60,000 pacemakers are inserted every year in France. This number has been steadily increasing for a decade. Miscellaneous incidents can lead patients with pacemakers or their relatives to contact emergency services. Following the call to the SAMU-Center 15 of a asymptomatic 90-year-old woman reported that her pacemaker was making "beep-beep", we assessed the knowledge of physicians of the SAMU-Center 15 (call center) dispatching center on the existence of pacemaker sound alarms. ⋯ Patients and physicians seem insufficiently aware of the existence of the existence of pacemakers' sound alarm. An effort must be made regarding the information on the existence of such an alarm and the way to managed it.