#smallest pacemaker

Saudi hospitals first to implant world’s smallest pacemaker

Two Saudi hospitals — King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital (KFAFH) and Prince Sultan Cardiac Center (PSCC) — have become the first medical facilities in the world to use the smallest pacemaker.

Dr. Raed Sweidan and Dr. Fayez Boukhari, KFAFH consultant electrophysiologists, and Dr. Ahmad Al-Fagih and Dr. Khaled Dagriri, PSCC consultant electrophysiologists, successfully implanted the devices in five…