What can I expect during my private pacemaker procedure?

So for you a typical pacemaker procedure will involve us bringing you down into the cardiac catheter laboratory. We can either give you sedation or potentially sometimes give you a general anaesthetic if you would like it. We will always give everybody some local anaesthetic under the collarbone here to make the skin nice and numb. Once our area has been anaesthetised we give a small incision here through which we'll be performing the procedure. Through this three to four centimetre incision we pop fashion a pocket where the device will sit. We find the vein that runs here connecting to the heart through which we pass the pacing leads down into the heart We secure the pacing leads. Precisely where they need to be within the heart and we then secure the leads up here to the muscle as well. We connect the leads to the pacemaker. Place them in that preformed pocket and then we close up all the tissues in layers with absorbable sutures. And then typically we'll put some skin glue to close up the skin in that final layer. We'll then bring you back up to the ward to convalesce. Before we start thinking about getting you home.