Wood chest with leather handle on top, hinged lid and locking clasp. Chest contains the "Cadiac Stimulator" which is fixed to the inside of the case. The electrical cardiac stimulator has an on/off ...

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 ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

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Seymour Furman, who died Monday at 74, was a surgeon who, in the late 1950s, developed the first pacemaker that stimulated the heart from within, using tiny jolts of electricity. It was a major ...

Defibrillators use electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rate, especially in cases of life threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest, while pacemakers use low-energy electrical pulses to ...

Researchers have created organic materials for brain and heart pacemakers, which rely on uninterrupted signal delivery to be effective. Using a plastic base known as polypropylene, the researchers ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, new pacemaker is particularly suited to the small, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects. Tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...