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 ...

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 model 3830 lead (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis ... which contributes up to 40% of the diameter of a standard 7-Fr pacemaker lead. Other than facilitating lead implantation or extraction ...

(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 ...

A complete system, consisting of a Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan IPG implanted with two CapSureFix MRI™ SureScan leads is required for use in the MRI environment. The Revo MRI™ Pacing System ...

During the testing phase, the research team was able to make one Medtronic device release sensitive ... The defibrillators, which can also include a pacemaker, can keep a record of heart activity ...

While the Stem Cell Institute would research the biological processes that would lead to advances in ... it was Bakken’s pacemaker that was largely responsible for building the company’s reputation.

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 ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...