Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging ...

Once the wires are hooked to the correct part of the heart, we use tiny crocodile clips to connect the other ends to an external pacemaker to ensure they are working properly and the contacts are ...

A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants ...

While reading a Popular Electronics magazine article, Bakken was inspired by metronome circuits and went on to create the first external, battery-powered pacemaker. Warren Mauston, a heart patient ...

The worldwide use of both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pacing devices has vastly increased in recent years and an important number of implanted patients likely will need an MRI over the ...

Mumbai: The doctors at the BMC-run Sion Hospital went a step beyond their duty call and donated Rs 1 lakh to save the life of ...

The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood ...

No beats arising in a focus other than that supplied by the external pacemaker were seen on the electrocardiogram, and all beats were alike and were different from the idioventricular complexes.

Background: Patients over the age of 75 represent more than half the recipients of permanent pacemakers. It is not known if they have a different risk of complications than younger patients.

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