(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 ...

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 ...

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Shortly after Bakken’s ...

One of the largest medical-device companies, Medtronic develops and manufactures therapeutic medical devices for chronic diseases. Its portfolio includes pacemakers, defibrillators, heart valves ...

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 ...

Absent or delayed therapy may be caused by programmed values (including human error), ICD system performance, or a combination of ... software interactions. Pacemaker-ICD interactions, once ...

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 ...

Medtronic in Santa Ana says its layoffs would be temporary while it repairs the roof of its medical device-making facility, while Avante Health Solutions in San Clemente hopes to retain its staff ...

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 ...

One of the largest medical-device companies, Medtronic develops and manufactures therapeutic medical devices for chronic diseases. Its portfolio includes pacemakers, defibrillators, heart valves, ...