Subtitle: Everything you need to know about living with a pacemaker or defibrillator
If you have a pacemaker, or someone you know is about to be fitted with one, this is the book for you. As well as the heartening stories collected by Dr John England, there is his own – the experience of a cardiologist and a patient with his own pacemaker for 38 years. Kickstart includes all the information you might need once you are fitted with this brilliant piece of modern technology – how it is implanted, how it works, what you need to be careful about, and what to do in the unlikely event of anything going wrong. Kickstart also explores legal and moral issues, especially those to do with medical responsibility and transparency. In other words, your right to know, for example, which hospitals have the best success rates. This is something Dr England has been fighting for for years.
