At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

Then the electrodes could be pulled out. Soon, both Medtronic and pacemaker technology started to take off. In 1959 a Medtronic engineer named Norman Roth teamed up with Samuel Hunter, a surgeon ...

By Steve Stricker Columnist Dr. Mark Campbell, Autum, Derek, Dorothy (Oxford Stern Cardiovascular Clinic Staff), Vallery, Carlen, Katlan, Madison (In-room preparation and monitoring), Dr. Mark, Derek, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, was born. It was created in a garage in ...

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 ...

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 ...