After having a pacemaker installed, does it mean I can only lie down?

Pacemaker postoperative wound

Director Wang Guodong is making rounds on patients undergoing pacemaker surgery

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Wang Guodong

Director of the Department of Cardiology, Beijing Boai Hospital, China Rehabilitation Research Center

Vice Chairman of the Geriatric Rehabilitation Branch of the Chinese Geriatric Health Medicine Research Association, Expert Member of the Popular Science Health Education Working Committee of the Chinese Medical Education Association, Standing Member of the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Committee of the China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Member of the Cardiovascular Disease Professional Committee of the Chinese Rehabilitation Medicine Association, Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Youth Committee Member of the Cardiovascular Disease Branch of the Beijing Medical Association, Member of the Department of Cardiology of Capital Medical University, etc.

He has been engaged in cardiovascular clinical work for 25 years and is good at coronary heart disease intervention diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular critical care rescue and cardiac rehabilitation. He has been engaged in coronary artery intervention for 17 years and has helped nearly 20 hospitals in China to carry out coronary artery intervention diagnosis and treatment. He has been engaged in cardiac rehabilitation for more than 10 years. In recent years, he has mainly been engaged in the integration of coronary heart disease intervention treatment and rehabilitation and heart-brain joint rehabilitation. He has participated in the compilation of related monographs: "Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention in China", "Rehabilitation of Internal and External Diseases", "Guidelines for Rehabilitation Services for the Elderly", "Practical Rehabilitation Nursing", "Drug Therapy Case Manual", "Cardiac Rehabilitation Practice Operation Manual", etc.