As far back as seven years ago, the medical device giant Medtronic introduced pacemakers and defibrillators that communicate wirelessly via its CareLink system. According to the company ...

Purpose: The Medtronic CareLink allows remote implantable device follow-up. In this first European experience with CareLink, we assessed the ease of use of the system, the acceptance, and ...

(Courtesy of Medtronic) At the time, pacemakers were “crude devices,” with wires coming out of the person’s body and “they were susceptible like anything that uses wall power,” said ...

The first-ever pacemaker to include Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP®), the EnRhythm™ Pacing System promotes intrinsic conduction and is clinically proven to significantly reduce unnecessary ...

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Shortly after Bakken’s ...

Medtronic SureScan technical manual. † St. Jude MRI procedure information. ‡ Biotronik ProMRI manual. § Passive leads available as of January 2012. ¶ Heart Rhythm 2010; 7:750–754[20 ...

Medtronic—derived from combining the terms "medical" and "electronic"—was formed in a Minneapolis garage by Earl Bakken (who ...

The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered ...

Two device manufacturers (Medtronic, St Jude Medical) developed special pacemaker systems to avoid thermical injuries due to induced electrical potentials under MRI. Their underlying active ...

Medtronic Plc announced a voluntary recall Friday of certain insulin pumps after customers said a single drop, bump, or physical impact could shorten their battery life. The Galway, Ireland-based ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...