Cardiac pacemaker transplants from cadavers

12/07/2011, Since the whole world is big on recycling, it makes perfect sense then, to explore every possible avenue of reducing wastage – and this might just include the recycling of medical equipment from the dead. I’m talking about reusing pacemakers [...]

BIOTRONIK external pacemaker has a heart for patients

05/12/2010, The new range of external pacemakers from BIOTRONIK lets one connect it to temporary epicardial pacing wires right after a particularly stressful open heart surgery, or you can also hook it to a pacing central line or a PA catheter [...]

Wireless pacemaker installed

08/11/2009, The world’s first pacemaker equipped with wireless home monitoring has just been installed, or should we say, grafted, in a patient. This enables physicians and doctors to monitor the patient’s health as and when required without having for the patient [...]