Earl Bakken compares the first Medtronic pacemaker to the company’s Micra pacemaker, roughly the size of a large vitamin capsule. (Courtesy of Medtronic) The first implantable device “was ...
The work was also published in Circulation. The device is designed to surround a leadless pacemaker, such as the Medtronic Micra, which sits in the heart's right ventricle. The challenge with a ...
Micra, the world’s smallest pacemaker, was also recently developed by Medtronic, and is roughly the size of a multivitamin.