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Once you're home after getting a pacemaker, contact your doctor right away if you experience:
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills;
- Redness, swelling, increased pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the incision site;
- Heartbeat irregularities;
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain;
- Pain you cannot control with the medicines you have been given.
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