title: [Intraoperative complications in the implantation of permanent pacemakers].
abstract: Intraoperative complications occurring during 2323 pacemaker implantations were analysed. The most frequent complications were arrhythmias in the form of ventricular fibrillation and asystole. Ventricular perforation with the stimulatory probe was observed in 0.21%. Vascular lesions, pneumothorax and pulmonary arterial embolism were extremely rare complications. The intraoperative mortality of all operations, done within 11 years, was 0.13%.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013223:Statistics as Topic
vernacular_title: Intraoperative Komplikationen bei der Implantation permanenter Schrittmacher.