2:30 PM.
Zhao Heng arrived at the cardiothoracic department, hoping to gain more information about the cardiac pacemaker used by the patient.
For anesthetizing patients with cardiac pacemakers, as an anesthesiologist, one must know detailed information about the pacemaker, such as the type and manufacturer of the equipment, the hospital where it was implanted, follow-up status, battery condition, device location, etc.
Additionally, one needs to know if the patient has pacemaker dependency; this dependency refers to whether any spontaneous ventricular activity or intolerable spontaneous activity at low frequency occurs when the CIED is set to VVI 30~40 times/min.
Being an anesthesiologist is not at all like the public impressions of starting surgery, playing with the phone, and packing up the phone after the surgery ends and leaving.
It's as if the anesthesiologist's sole job throughout the surgery is just sitting there and playing with the phone.
