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- Boleslav Kosharskyy and Dima Rozen.
- School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management Division, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029-6574, USA. boleslav.kosharskyy@msnyuhealth.org
- Pain Physician. 2006 Jul 1; 9 (3): 249-51.
ObjectiveTo report about the safe use of a spinal cord stimulator (SCS) and a permanent cardiac pacemaker (PPM).DesignOpen-label case report.Case DescriptionA 75-year-old male with a history of diabetic polyneuropathy and a permanent pacemaker was followed for 6 months after implantation of a SCS.ConclusionThe simultaneous use of bipolar SCS in a patient with a PPM is not contraindicated. However, because false inhibition of a cardiac pacemaker may potentially lead to serious events, individual testing is mandatory to ascertain safety in each patient.
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