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 ...

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Jude) Impedance of ≥ 200 and ≤ 1500 Ohms (all) No diaphragmatic pacing at 5.0 V at a pulse width of 1.0 ms (Medtronic, St. Jude) ...

The two regional studies utilized a lumenless, bipolar, permanent pacing lead (SelectSecure™ lead model 3830, Medtronic, Inc.) (Fig. 1). This 4.1-Fr-diameter, active fixation, steroid-eluting ...