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I wouldn't be surprised if the funeral homes don't pull them out too and sell them on the black market.

They probably get thousands for one.

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It is an involved sterilization process with lots of checks along the way if any were curious:

https://www.med.umich.edu/myheartyourheart/pdf/j.jacep.2016.12.007.full%20(1).pdf

but this is most important in cases of cremation, where the batteries can damage the chamber or injure the operators.

https://www.neptunesociety.com/cremation-information-articles/why-a-pacemaker-should-be-removed-prior-to-cremation

or a suit and tie.

That is technology worth recycling!

Of course, anything this sensible is going to be objectionable to some government body and/or the manufacturer making money off new ones.

This doc is courageous and praise-worthy!!

and refurbishing, allowing them to be exported to other countries that request them.

We would have agreed to my dad's being used for another if the option was there.

and I thought, at the time, what a waste, surely they could have taken it and used it for an indigent patient.

Source--https://www.medicinenet.com/pets/dog-health/human_pacemakers_offer_hope_to_ailing_dogs.htm

Guiedo, a 12-year-old hound mix, recently received a pacemaker after getting diagnosed with heart block, a condition in which the electrical signal that makes the organ contract and pump blood is disrupted.

More at source

I learn something new on DU every single day.

Great stuff, especially to a 9 year old dog owner.

Two of my dogs lived past 18, so I still think of him as a puppy. I'm grateful for all that I've learned here.

Why bury/burn something that could be useful to save another life?

He should be dead!

Damn!

Somebody gave Cheney a heart transplant? Instead of just letting him fuck off and die?

got an extra 5 healthy happy years of life with a donated, used human pacemaker. I just had to pay for the surgery. A very good way to recycle for both humans and animals.

do those big paws mean that pup will be a BIG dog?

i'm so glad that you and hammy were able to get a pacemaker.

(stupidly, i didn't realize dogs could have pacemakers)

Thanks for the information, something to keep in mind!

I'm so glad he/she got a second shot at a longer life!

My father died 3 days after they put in a pacemaker in. It was March 2002. I was wondering why, if they knew he wasn't going to make thru the weekend, did they do the procedure. It was not his heart, it was his kidneys that was the cause of his death. All the pacemaker did was complicate things more. I am not a doctor and will never be as smart as some of them, but the doctors who cared for my fathers where incompetent to be said.

Or possibly training oriented. My mom had a new central line put in, when they knew perfectly well she was toast. I wasn't in any shape to say no.

They told me anthing like a pacemaker has to be removed by them first.

And hope something useful is done with them.

to a person in need but was told they couldn't do that because it was inside his body. I thought they could sterilize it. The cost was 36,000.00. He didn't die of heart failure he had a aneurysm and was brain dead. He was a organ donor and they could put his liver, etc.in someone's body but not the defibrillator. It made no sense to me.

They lied to you.

"The sad part,” Mascarenhas said, “is that we could reuse them in this country by re-sterilizing them but nobody wants to do this, because we are a land where we learn to waste.”

also, they were removing his organs for donation so it would have been easy to remove the defibrillator. I don't know what happened to it but it's sad if it was thrown away.

He isn't reselling the pacemakers, he is sending them to India to be implanted into patients that can't afford them otherwise.

think their citizens are "useless eaters"; it's why healthcare isn't a human right.