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Publication Cardiac pacing at TU Teaching Hospital - Changing perspective(Institute of Medicine, 1998) Jha, Sunil; Acharya, SM; Pahari, AnilAbstract Life-saving procedures like cardiac pacing have been restarted in the TU Teaching Hospital. In this study, various aspects of cardiac pacing are described. In a period of 27 months, 36 permanent pacemaker implantation and 60 temporary pacemaker implantation procedures were performed by this group. All the procedures were successful and no serious complications were observed. Pacing parameters, and complications are discussed and compared with the earlier studies which clearly demonstrates betterment of the pacemaker situation. The first pediatric pacemaker implantation in Nepal is described. Problems and improvement aspects are highlighted. Keywords: Permanent pacemaker, Temporary pacemaker, Pacemaker implantation, fluoroscopy, syncopal attacks, CHB, SSS