New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

The feasible combination of leads and devices from different manufacturers leads to a loss of MRI-compatibility in every case. Thus far, only specially designated pacemaker systems from Medtronic ...

The Revo MRI™ Pacing System with SureScan® technology has met the rigors of clinical evaluation, regulatory review, and FDA approval. Specifically Engineered for the MRI Environment ...

The new standard of care in pacing is to reduce unnecessary right ventricular pacing to as close to zero as possible. Mounting evidence suggests that right ventricular pacing is associated with a ...

The authors report on about an MRI-compatible pacemaker system and similar systems. This statement in this form is dangerous and requires clarification. The standards E-DIN 6877–1 and ASTM F2503 ...

(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 ...

What's more, Medtronic, a medical device company, published an article with the title "Pets and pacemakers: best friends a while longer," about a miniature schnauzer that received a pacemaker ...

Imricor’s work over past 18 years developing the world’s only MRI-compatible devices for cardiac ablation procedures is ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

Manny Villafaña, the legendary—and tireless—med-tech entrepreneur, whose innovative pacemakers and heart valves launched Cardiac Pacemakers (acquired by Boston Scientific), St. Jude Medical ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex ... Another aspect of concern is that the first generations of Medtronic MRI-compatible PPMs (EnRhythm Sure scan) and the Biotronik Pro MRI Evia ...

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 ...