(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 ...

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

lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was ...

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 ...

Investing.com -- RBC Capital Markets has upgraded Medtronic PLC (ETR:2M6) (NYSE:MDT) to an "outperform" rating, reflecting increased confidence in the company's fundamentals and future growth ...

Sylmar, CA, USA; ProMRI® Pacing Systems Evia pacemaker series and Solia and Safio pacing leads, BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany) (Table II). However, now only the Medtronic Revo system has ...

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 ...

One of the latest developments is the world’s first app-based remote monitoring system for pacemakers, called MyCareLink Smart™, introduced in January of this year in Canada by Medtronic. This new app ...

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 in Santa Ana says its layoffs would be temporary while it repairs the roof of its medical device-making facility, while Avante Health Solutions in San Clemente hopes to retain its staff ...