Earl Bakken compares the first Medtronic pacemaker to the company’s Micra pacemaker, roughly the size of a large vitamin capsule. (Courtesy of Medtronic) The first implantable device “was ...

The work was also published in Circulation. The device is designed to surround a leadless pacemaker, such as the Medtronic Micra, which sits in the heart's right ventricle. The challenge with a ...

Medtronic's miniature leadless pacemaker, the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), is expected to secure FDA approval during the company's 2017 fiscal year. That stretches from May 2016 through ...

The first-ever pacemaker to include Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP®), the EnRhythm™ Pacing System promotes intrinsic conduction and is clinically proven to significantly reduce unnecessary ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

Catheter Precision, Inc. (NYSE American:VTAK), a U.S.-based innovative medical device company focused on electrophysiology products, today announced its financial results and operational update for ...

The new standard of care in pacing is to reduce unnecessary right ventricular pacing to as close to zero as possible. Mounting evidence suggests that right ventricular pacing is associated with a ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

Within Cardiovascular, Medtronic is gaining market share ... strong growth banking on strong global growth of its Micra leadless pacemaker. Innovations and market expansion efforts are helping ...

Micra, the world’s smallest pacemaker, was also recently developed by Medtronic, and is roughly the size of a multivitamin.

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex ... Another aspect of concern is that the first generations of Medtronic MRI-compatible PPMs (EnRhythm Sure scan) and the Biotronik Pro MRI Evia ...