Abstract
In the early 1950s, Dr Aubrey Leatham established a cardiac unit at St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London. He developed and taught the essential clinical skill of cardiac auscultation. Under his guidance a clinical department for the care of cardiac patients was developed and coupled to physiological academic research. He was a pioneer in cardiac pacing and, in 1961, Harold Siddons, O'Neal Humphries, and Aubrey Leatham implanted the first 'indwelling' pacemaker in the UK in a 65-year-old man with repeated Stokes-Adams attacks due to complete heart block. The nickel-cadmium 'accumulator', which powered the pacemaker, had to be recharged once a week.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1356-1359 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Europace |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2010 |
Keywords
- History
- St George's