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APPENDIX B NUMBER OF IMPLANTATIONS PRIMARY (FIRST-TIME) PACEMAKER IMPLANTATIONS PER MILLION POPULATION, 1972 British Isles 22 Finland 38 Denmark 56 Netherlands 59 Norway 79 France 100 Federal Republic of Germany 100–120 Sweden 123 United States 110 Source: Cardiac Pacing: Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium on Cardiac Pacing, Groningen, the Netherlands, April 17–18–19, 1973, ed. Hilbert J. T. Thalen (Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1973), 84–87, 90–111. THE BERNSTEIN-PARSONNET ESTIMATE OF PACEMAKER AND ICD IMPLANTATIONS, 1997 Primary (first time) pacemaker implantations, 1997 152,909 New implantations per million population 571 Pulse generator replacements 38,946 Primary ICD implantations, 1997 28,711 ICD replacements 6,919 Source: Alan D. Bernstein and Victor Parsonnet, ‘‘Preliminary Results: Survey of Cardiac Pacing and ICD Practice Patterns, 1997 Results’’ (unpublished; my thanks to the authors for permission to use these data). APPENDIX B 295 ESTIMATES OF PRIMARY PACEMAKER IMPLANTATIONS PER MILLION POPULATION, VARIOUS COUNTRIES, 1989 Yugoslavia 67 Japan 89 United Kingdom 148 Israel 184 ‘‘Europe’’ 235 Sweden 253 Canada 279 United States 359 Federal Republic of Germany 363 France 438 Belgium 538 Source: Victor Parsonnet and Alan D. Bernstein, ‘‘The 1989 World Survey of Cardiac Pacing,’’ Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 14 (November 1991, pt. 2): 2074. ...

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