How to Identify Pacemakers

If you have an implanted pacemaker device, it is important to know both the brand and the model of your device. In most situations, this information will be given to you at time of discharge from the hospital or clinic where the device was implanted. If this information is not available to you, or if you only have partial information in the form of a brochure or user's manual, there are other places you can find information from regarding your device.

Things You'll Need

• Pacemaker identification card, either temporary or permanent
• Brochures or user's manuals give to you at the hospital or clinic
• Any discharge paperwork given post-implantation
• Phone number of your cardiologist
• Phone number of your primary care physician

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Instructions

• 1

  Check the warranty card that was given to you at the time of discharge from the hospital. A temporary warranty card might be given to a new patient with their "real" card to follow in the mail.

• 2

  Read the device literature given to you in the hospital. Many newly implanted pacemaker patients leave the hospital with a user's guide for their devices.

• 3

  Examine any hospital paperwork given to you at the time of discharge. Some hospitals or device implantation clinics will send home paperwork in which post-surgical recovery procedures are listed along with the brand and model of the device implanted.

• 4

  Contact your cardiology office. Calling the cardiology office, or the clinic that will routinely maintain your device, can save time because such offices have to list your device as part of the follow-up care of the pacemaker.

• 5

  Contact your primary care physician. Hospital and clinic dictation made by your cardiologist or device clinic will (usually) arrive at your primary care physician's office to be filed as part of your patient chart.

• 6

  Contact the pacemaker company directly.