A 13-year-old girl, Chandni Gaud, receives a wireless pacemaker as a Diwali gift, sparing her from frequent hospital visits ...

Medtronic has been quick to realize that ... that the US Food and Drug Administration had approved its own wireless pacemaker system, which works in a similar way. Meanwhile, companies such ...

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 invention, the first implantable pacemaker was developed and soon ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of doctors at Sion hospital in Mumbai managed to secure a costly wireless pacemaker for 13-year ... were provided for free after appealing to Medtronic India Limited and contributions ...

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred patients were included in this study, 71 males and 29 females. The mean age was 68.4 ± 15.1 years with a range of 12–92 years. Devices were tested from the following manufacturers ...