Patients’ and Family Members’ Views on Pacemaker Reuse: an International
Survey
Andrew B. Hughey, MD,1 Palaniappan Muthappan,
MD,2 Auroa Badin, MD,3 Timir Baman,
MD,4 Naila Baig-Ansari, PhD,5 Fayez
Jawed, MSc,6 Abdul B. Khan, MBBS,7Qingmei Jiang, MA, MS,1 Katherine L. Hughey,
MD,8 Rolando Jirón Toruño, MD,9Christian Machado, MD,10 Marwan M.
Refaat,11 MD, Patrick Zakka, MD,12Mostafa Hotait, MD,11 Kim A. Eagle,
MD,1 Thomas C. Crawford, MD1
1 University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Internal
Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2 Wright State University Boonshoft School of
Medicine, Internal Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA
3 University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio, Internal Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, USA
4 OSF Healthcare, Cardiology, Peoria, IL, USA
5 The Indus Hospital, Indus Hospital Research Center,
Karachi, Pakistan
6 Sofregen Inc., Medford, MA, USA
7 Indus Hospital, Indus Hospital Research Center,
Karachi, Pakistan
8 University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Family
Medicine Ann Arbor, MI, USA
9 Centro Nacional Cardiologia, Cardiologia, Managua,
Nicaragua
10 Providence Hospital and Medical Center,
Cardiology/Electrophysiology, Southfield, Michigan, USA, Wayne State
University, Internal Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
11 Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular
Medicine Division, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
12 Emory University School of Medicine, Internal
Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Short Title: Patients’ and Family Members’ views on pacemaker reuse