This study aimed to discuss the repercussion in the lifestyle of the pacemaker bearer patient. The informants were seven patients that were submitted to the definitive pacemaker implant in the Messejana Hospital Ceára (Brazil), from May to June 2004. The data analysis was developed from the categorization of the interviews contents, emerging as a result two thematic categories: life conditions because of the disease discovery and self-care repercussion in the lifestyle change in the context of the health promotion. It is concluded the need of forming multi-professional teams to act in strategies in Health Education, enlarging and publishing the use of the definitive pacemaker, aiming at these people's adherence for the similar self-care.
Lifestyle; Pacemaker, Artificial; Self-care; Health Education