Life Magazine Article: Keeping pace with cardiac care
8 February 2019
A win for Cape Town hospital using minimally invasive technique to insert world’s smallest pacemaker
Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital’s specialist cardiac unit has inserted the world’s smallest, leadless pacemaker, self-contained within the heart and 93% smaller than conventional pacemakers.
A pacemaker is a medical device that is implanted in people whose heartbeats are too slow to help maintain a regular heartbeat.
Dr Vinod Thomas, an electrophysiologist and cardiologist, is the first interventional cardiac expert to undertake this minimally invasive technique inside the Life Healthcare Group.
