@misc{cogprints4293, volume = {3}, number = {1}, month = {January}, author = {Herwig Antretter and Joshua Colvin and Ulli Schweigmann and Herbert Hangler and Daniel H{\"o}fer and Karin Dunst and Josef Margreiter and Guenther Laufer}, editor = {Balbir Singh and Yash Lokhandwala and Johnson Francis and Anup Gupta}, title = {Special Problems Of Pacing In Children}, publisher = {Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Group}, year = {2003}, journal = {Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal}, pages = {23--33}, keywords = { pediatric cardiac pacing, epicardial pacing, transatrial pacing, growth}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4293/}, abstract = {The number of children suffering from congenital or acquired rhythm disorders, and therefore being pacemaker dependent, is very small. This is one of the reasons why a special hardware has never been developed for this cohort. Pacemaker implantation into children does not differ substantially from operations in adults. But there are several important points which have to be fulfilled in these small patients in order to guarantee a complication free function. As most of these children remain pacemaker dependent a lifetime, it is of tremendous importance to minimize all revisions regarding the implanted systems and to enable our small patients a high and therefore nearly normal quality of life. Pros and cons of different surgical approaches, implantation sites and the problem of growth after pacemaker implantation in children are considered.} }