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 ...

(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 first-ever pacemaker to include Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP®), the EnRhythm™ Pacing System promotes intrinsic conduction and is clinically proven to significantly reduce unnecessary ...

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 ...

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