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

(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 far back as seven years ago, the medical device giant Medtronic introduced pacemakers and defibrillators that communicate wirelessly via its CareLink system. According to the company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Medtronic SureScan technical manual. † St. Jude MRI procedure information. ‡ Biotronik ProMRI manual. § Passive leads available as of January 2012. ¶ Heart Rhythm 2010; 7:750–754[20 ...

Medtronic—derived from combining the terms "medical" and "electronic"—was formed in a Minneapolis garage by Earl Bakken (who ...

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 ...

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 ...