They envision these devices working together to monitor our vital functions ... the medical device giant Medtronic introduced pacemakers and defibrillators that communicate wirelessly via its ...

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

This includes cardiac monitors inserted ... educational opportunities. Medtronic is a global producer of medical devices and ...

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 ...

Pacemakers send electrical pulses to regulate a person’s heart rate and, in 1957, these electrical innovations needed to be ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more ... systems and initial data with MRI-conditional devices suggests that given appropriate monitoring and programming, poor outcomes can be prevented and ...

C. Walton Lillehei, turned to Medtronic founder Earl Bakken for help, to make sure he wouldn’t find himself in this situation again. Bakken, who was working out of his garage at the time to repair ...

Minneapolis, MN, USA), and one patient had a Medtronic EnRhythm DR (Model: P1501DR). Each system had the capability of programming to the unipolar mode via the pacemaker generator. All interaction ...

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 ...