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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2005;81:198-199
© 2005 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

CASE REPORT

A migrating pacemaker

C P Gale 1, G P Mulley 2

1 Department of Cardiology, Pontefract General Infirmary, Pontefract, UK
2 Department of Medicine for the Elderly, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr C P Gale
Department of Cardiology, Pontefract General Infirmary, Friarwood Lane, Pontefract WF8 1PL, UK; medcpg{at}leeds.ac.uk

A deceased 79 year old man with a permanent cardiac pacemaker was due to be cremated, but the pacemaker generator was not detectable by palpation. A hand held metal detector to locate the device so that it could be extracted before cremation.

Keywords: metal detector; permanent pacemake






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