Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies ... pacemakers were “crude devices,” with wires coming out of the person’s body and “they were susceptible like ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of doctors provide a costly wireless pacemaker to 13-year-old Chandni Gaud at no charge, preventing repeated ...

Medtronic Venous Cannulae are designed to provide optimal venous drainage while providing flexibility and ease of use. We offer a variety of single stage venous cannulae with kink-resistant, wire ...

Algorithms are available in certain devices to maximize ventricular pacing in the event of conducted atrial arrhythmias. The Medtronic Conducted AF Response™ and Biotronik Rate Fading ...

Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was front page news even before the child’s death was known. “Thursday’s power failure was undoubtedly ...

Figure 3 shows coronary sinus model 2187 (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN). Figure 4 shows the Aescula (St. Jude, Sylmar, CA). Chest radiograph showing direct epicardial left ventricular pacing.

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 ...