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  • derangertomemes@lemmy.worldFilthy whore
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    2 days ago

    If it’s lethal at high doses it’s not good for you, period.

    The point I’m making is this statement you made applies to literally everything you can possibly consume. There’s nothing that’s not lethal or otherwise detrimental to life at a high enough dose.

    You’re also using the appeal to nature fallacy when you say “if it’s not natural, it’s not good.” There are plenty of chemicals which are good, even lifesaving, that do not exist in nature.










  • I’d point out this is a temporary pacemaker, not a permanent PPM or ICD. You get these as an inpatient in the hospital when you’re recovering from some pretty intense cardiac procedures. One of the advantages they point out is not having any electrodes to remove in this new device. With temporary transvenous pacemakers, they don’t implant an electrode in the heart, the wire is just chilling there in the bloodstream in your heart.

    Not saying it’s not a cool development but it’s going to need a lot of testing and validation before it’s accepted in practice.

    Note: I’m not a cardiologist, but I work with them doing EMR stuff and have to know a bit about cardiology.