Arne Larsson (patient)

{{short description|Swedish, first person worldwide with a cardiac pacemaker implant}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Arne Larsson

| image = Arne Larsson.jpg

| alt = A picture of Arne Larsson tying a boat to a dock.

| caption = Arne Larsson tying a boat to a dock.

| birth_name = Arne Larsson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|05|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Skultuna, Sweden

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|12|28|1915|05|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Nacka, Sweden

| nationality = Swedish

| other_names =

| known_for = The first patient who depended on an artificial cardiac pacemaker

| occupation =

}}

Arne Larsson (26 May 1915{{cite journal|last1=Plummer|first1=Chris|title=Pacemakers: where is the block?|journal=Geriatric Medicine|date=July 2006|pages=57–64|url=http://www.gmjournal.co.uk/uploadedfiles/redbox/pavilion_content/our_content/social_care_and_health/gm_archive/2006/july/jul06p57.pdf|publisher=Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd|access-date=2014-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716164021/http://www.gmjournal.co.uk/uploadedfiles/redbox/pavilion_content/our_content/social_care_and_health/gm_archive/2006/july/jul06p57.pdf|archive-date=2014-07-16|url-status=dead}} – 28 December 2001) was the first patient to receive an artificial cardiac pacemaker. The first two pacemakers were implanted by Åke Senning in 1958. Arne lived for another forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers."The Body", by Bill Bryson, p. 121

He died from melanoma on 28 December 2001 after being diagnosed two years prior.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/world/arne-h-w-larsson-86-had-first-internal-pacemaker.html|title = Arne H. W. Larsson, 86; Had First Internal Pacemaker|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 18 January 2002|last1 = Altman|first1 = Lawrence K.}}