Sentences with phrase «of a pacemaker into»

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Frustrated with her doctors and the manufacturer of her pacemaker, Moe has turned her life's work into finding out more on behalf of all patients.

He began to shrink his device and on May 7, 1958, a version of his pacemaker was successfully inserted into a dog.

As the number of pacemakers implanted each year reaches into the millions worldwide, improving the lifespan of pacemaker batteries has been of great concern for developers and manufacturers.

The pulse generator is implanted under the skin like a pacemaker, just below the collar bone, and a wire is threaded into one of the veins near the phrenic nerve.

In a 2012 episode of the TV series Homeland, Vice President William Walden is assassinated by a terrorist who hacks into his Internet - enabled heart pacemaker and accelerates his heartbeat until he has a heart attack.

From health monitoring sensors woven into clothing to pacemaker leads that never wear out, stretchable electronics could usher in a new era of wearable tech.

Because the battery is soft and flexible, it could be put into a person's soft tissue, where it should be capable of providing a power source for a pacemaker or other medical device.

But if it is introduced into the body during a medical procedure — especially if a joint implant, catheter, or pacemaker is contaminated during insertion — both S. epidermidis and S. aureus can form dangerous biofilms that often can not be treated without removal of the infected implant.

For the first time ever, thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.

A heart - on - a-chip being developed in the lab of Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, incorporates electrodes that act like mini pacemakers to «shock» the cells into beating, just as they would in a real heart.

Sewn into a hump of skin and muscle below his right collarbone was the pacemaker that had helped his heart outlive his brain.

Researchers successfully broke into a pacemaker and were able to read confidential patient information and could have delivered jolts of electricity to the patient's heart.

The pacemaker lead is typically placed through the jugular vein in the right side of the neck, down into the inside of the heart and attached the heart wall.

Okay I am 56 years old I had a pacemaker put in 2012 the month of May I hear it is over 3 years later actually I'm doing pretty good I'm on blood pressure medication blood pressure is doing good I am NOT a diabetic nor do I smoke or drink I'm just looking into getting final expenses insurance something around 10 — 12000 I'm not looking to make someone rich just would like to know having enough insurance to put me away

6 weeks ago my 34 year old husband went into cardiac arrest and now has a pacemaker (one time blog post outlines how the Lord provided every perfect step of the way)-- Matt is a teacher, we have 3 children and we purchased our 1977 home last summer.