This may be an academic distinction alone as all modern pacemakers now have rate responsive capabilities.
But results from a study on 500 patients indicate pacemakers may offer another treatment option.
Dr Zoll's pacemakers of the 1950s were external machines to which patients would be attached.
Biotronik claims it was first to include wireless, automated data transmission in defibrillators and pacemakers.
He plans to bundle wireless patient-monitoring capabilities into all of his cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers.
Security experts have noted that implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers, are vulnerable to attack.
After all, as he points out, undertakers already routinely remove pacemakers from dead bodies.
Other neural implants act as "brain pacemakers, " performing deep brain stimulation to treat people with Parkinson's disease.
Riding for the D'Antin Ducati team, he did not enter the season expecting to be among the pacemakers.
These include approvals of new drugs, vaccines, medical devices (such as artificial joints and pacemakers) and food additives.
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The company gets a third of its revenue from pacemakers and other devices that keep hearts ticking properly.
The tax will hit everything they sell, from x-ray machines and pacemakers to surgical tools and artificial hips.
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"Brain stimulation will be to the next 10 years what cardiac pacemakers were to the last 40, " he predicts.
In AV block , dual chamber pacemakers also get a class I indication.
They also received two to three times as many pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac-bypass operations, carotid endarterectomies, and coronary-artery stents.
That includes everything from putting in pacemakers to replacing joints, like hips and knees, to taking out diseased gall bladders.
Some 20 million Americans now walk around embedded with high-tech gear: artificial hips and knee joints, pacemakers, heart defibrillators and more.
Epstein managed other groups, among them Gerry and the Pacemakers, but although successful they never matched the appeal of the Beatles.
Two years ago, she underwent a treatment call deep brain stimulation, which, along with "brain pacemakers" have improved her quality of life.
The ferries, immortalised by Gerry and the Pacemakers 1960's hit Ferry Cross the Mersey, are subsidised by tolls from the Mersey Tunnels.
Some electronic circuits have also made their way into the bodies of people in the form of heart pacemakers and cochlear implants.
It helps that the race itself will be free of the blistering-fast pacemakers who are otherwise so prevalent on the world marathon circuit.
Other everyday items that can be hacked remotely include pacemakers, insulin pumps, and, in theory, just about anything connected wirelessly a network.
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Last week, the company announced better than expected sales, mostly due to its products that help the heart, such as defibrillators and pacemakers.
Buying Guidant fixes that problem, because the company has traditionally been a big player in the market for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD).
In 1954, he was one of the pacemakers who helped Roger Bannister become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Some 2, 500 companies making medical devices are now established in southern California, up from just a handful when Mr Mann first became intrigued by pacemakers.
Repeated operations are currently needed to replace batteries in pacemakers.
Patients will pay more for everything from wheelchairs to pacemakers.
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Jude Medical (nyse: STJ - news - people ), a smaller maker of defibrillators and pacemakers that he feels has been constrained by a too-tiny sales force.
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