Scottsdale, Arizona — Adam Boas heart attackor so they tell him.

“I remember getting ready for work that day, that’s all,” said Boas.

Boaz said his wife was driving and on her way to work.

Boaz was in cardiac arrest at the age of 37. He wakes up in the hospital and is told by his doctors that he has had a heart attack.

“Not what you would expect,” he said. “You wake up in the hospital and they say you have cardiac arrest.”

Doctors told Boaz his heart was actually fine. There were no genetic defects and no serious problems. You just had a heart attack and it could happen again.

So Dr. Thomas Matoni Honorary Institute of Health I made a suggestion to Boaz: get a pacemaker.

It was not only a pacemaker, but also a defibrillator. The pacemaker is wireless and is injected into the heart through a leg vein.

“It’s a tiny little bullet housed in a self-contained unit with no wires,” Mattioni said.

Pacemakers were also experimental.

“The novel part is this communication system between two devices that has never really been done before.”

Of course, pacemakers and defibrillators have been implanted for years and are far from experimental.

The difference in this unit is that the pacemaker and defibrillator “talk” to each other. A defibrillator delivers a greater shock to the heart than a pacemaker. The two devices work together to determine the required shock to Boas’ heart.

The label “experimental” is a bit concerning, but Boas said using himself as a test subject could help others in the future.

“If there is an opportunity in the future to do something that will help people, perhaps we should take the opportunity,” he said.

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