This study was designed to determine how physicians manage pacemaker (PM) and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recalls and safety alerts (collectively "advisories") and to determine ...
PM and ICD advisories occur frequently and affect many patients. Physician consensus exists regarding the management of some device advisories but substantial differences of opinion are present ...
Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Shortly after Bakken’s invention, the first implantable pacemaker was developed and soon ...
"Just like ultrasound converts electrical voltage into pressure or sound, we can engineer similar materials onto implantable medical ... smaller than a transvenous pacemaker and reside entirely ...
The Beijing municipal government has published an action plan for expanding the city's medical device industry to an overall scale of 50 billion yuan (about 7 billion US dollars) by 2026.
A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants ...