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Biotronik (BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG; [1] [2] Biotronik Worldwide) is a limited partnership [1] multi-national cardiovascular biomedical research and technology company, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The company offers equipment for diagnosis, treatment, and therapy support in the areas of cardiac rhythm management, electrophysiology , and ...
Betacel powered cardiac pacemakers were implanted in numerous patients in the 1970s. Biotronik GmbH & Co., Ingenieurburo, Berlin, adapted its chemical battery-powered pacemakers to accept the promethium-fueled Betacel battery. The Betacel powered Biotronik pacemakers were considered to have useful lives of 7 to 10 years. [5]
The Medical Devices Division was spun off and went public in late 1994 under the name of Guidant Corporation (NYSE and PCX: GDT). The new company focused on cardiac rhythm management (pacemakers and implantable defibrillators) and cardiac and vascular intervention products via coronary and peripheral stents, guidewires and balloon dilatation ...
New devices are able to store a total of 60 minutes of recordings on their memory. Thirty minutes is reserved for automatic storage of arrhythmias according to preprogrammed criteria. The remaining 30 minutes can be divided into a selectable number of slots for storage of manually triggered retrograde recordings as an answer to symptoms ...
Illustration of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able to perform defibrillation, and depending on the type, cardioversion and pacing of the heart.
The Standard "ISO/IEEE International Standard - Health informatics--Point-of-care medical device communication - Part 10207: Domain Information and Service Model for Service-Oriented Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication" [9] is derived from the IEEE 11073-10201 Domain Information Model. It is designed to meet the requirements of networked ...
Near-infrared vein finder are medical devices used to try to increase the ability of healthcare providers to see veins. [1] They use near-infrared light reflection to create a map of the veins. [1] The received imagery is then either displayed on a screen or projected back onto the patient's skin.
The Unique Device Identification (UDI) System is intended to assign a unique identifier to medical devices within the United States, Europe, China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. [1] It was signed into law in the US on September 27, 2007, as part of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (Section 226) of 2007.