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 ...

Robotic surgery used to be fodder for science fiction movies. Not anymore. They are becoming more mainstream by the day.

Medtronic PLC (NYSE: MDT), a member of the medical sector and the healthcare industry, received U.S. FDA approval for its ...

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 ...

The model 3830 lead (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis ... which contributes up to 40% of the diameter of a standard 7-Fr pacemaker lead. Other than facilitating lead implantation or extraction ...

Josh Tarini joined medical devices firm Medtronic Canada as a diabetes clinical specialist. Fourteen years later, he is the ...

A complete system, consisting of a Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan IPG implanted with two CapSureFix MRI™ SureScan leads is required for use in the MRI environment. The Revo MRI™ Pacing System ...

Dr Ajay Kaul, chairman of Cardiac Sciences at Fortis Hospital, Noida, says the technology has definite advantages as the ...

While the Stem Cell Institute would research the biological processes that would lead to advances in cardiovascular care ... Now retired and living in Hawaii, it was Bakken’s pacemaker that was ...

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Bakken and Medtronic co-founder Palmer J. Hermundslie secured a licensing agreement with ...