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 ...

Medtronic's miniature leadless pacemaker, the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), is expected to secure FDA approval during the company's 2017 fiscal year. That stretches from May 2016 through ...

(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 ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex ... only the first generation of Medtronic Sure Scan devices are available and approved by the FDA, so that at present, in the United States, it ...

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 ...