Imagine fainting over and over again and your doctors can't figure out why.

"I just fell flat on my face. I was in the kitchen cooking and I fell out again," Carolyn Bamburg said. Carolyn is recovering at MCGHealth not from falling, but from lifesaving surgery. "My heart was actually stopping," she said.

But for months, doctors couldn't explain why Carolyn was passing out. It was a frustrating and scary situation for the 69-year-old.

"We know something is wrong, but we don't know what's wrong for sure. They couldn't find anything wrong with me that they though was serious," Bamburg said.

That was until doctors at MCGHealth implanted a tiny electronic device inside Carolyn. It's called a Sleuth and it's the first wireless electrocardiogram system for long-term monitoring.

The device was implanted in Carolyn, near her chest, just three weeks ago. During that time, it gathered information including Caryoln's heart activity during a near fainting spell just last week.

That data was then sent to a monitoring center, giving doctors a unique look at her heart beat and of course, a long awaited diagnoses.

"Her heart was close to stopping. It's about as slow as you go and still have a heartbeat," Dr. Robert Sorrentino of MCGHealth said.

Finally with a diagnosis in hand, thanks to the Sleuth, doctors implanted a pacemaker in Carolyn to keep her heart pumping properly.

"Being able to come up with a diagnosis like this quickly and to treat it properly is really critical," Dr. Sorrentino said.

"This is wonderful. I don't know how to express how good it it because it really saved my life, it really did. Now I can go back to being a new person instead of being 69, I'll go back to 49," Bamburg said.

Carolyn became the first person in Georgia and among the first in the nation to have been implanted with Transoma Medical's Sleuth device.