Sentences with phrase «of pacemakers as»

Cardiac disease, which includes implantation of pacemakers as well as diagnosis and treatment of all forms of cardiopulmonary disease.

Not exact matches

Be it alarm systems, GPS, web cameras, HVAC or medical devices, such as pacemakers, it'd be hard to guess which of these devices are even connected to the internet in the first place.

Think of it as a pacemaker for poor sleepers.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

At a minimum of 250 cm, or halfway up the track, there is a blue line called the stayer's line, used in stayer races (races behind pacemaker - motorbikes) as a separation line.

You not that «not many people think of childhood vaccines or pacemakers etc as unnatural or life extension technology,» but they are!

FDA officials adopted a policy of «enforcement discretion,» which meant they pretty much left LDTs alone while they focused on tools with an apparently greater potential for harm, such as malfunctioning pacemakers.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, such as pacemakers, that are designed to electrically stimulate the heart to function normally fail to help as many as a third of patients who receive them each year, according to some studies.

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.

One example might be as a pacemaker to replace the metal, battery - powered devices of today.

Marc Madou, a microengineering expert at the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues are targeting their efforts at microbatteries, small power cells used to juice devices such as pacemakers, hearing aids, smart cards, and remote sensors.

«For clinical purposes, the current achievement will benefit the development of self - powered cardiac pacemakers as well as prevent heart attacks via the real - time diagnosis of heart arrhythmia.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

This research will enable smaller implantable pacemakers in the future, which would result in less invasive procedures to implant them and the devices would need to be replaced less frequently, firmly establishing MCCI as a center of excellence for bio-medical microelectronics research.»

Poon's team built an electronic device smaller than a grain of rice that acts as a pacemaker.

As the UPV / EHU researcher Jasone Astorga explained, it has been found that «the energy consumption of this Ladon protocol is negligible in comparison with the usual consumption of a pacemaker or ICD when applying its therapy (stimulating or defibrillating), and has no significant impact on how long the batteries last.»

In any case, the possibility of marketing this protocol for these purposes is still a long way off, as validations would have to be conducted on real pacemakers.

She expects such a multidisciplinary approach to pay off in the form of applications such as lithium batteries for stronger and more comfortable pacemakers and better metal implants for damaged bones.

Longino argues that the commonsense value of «simplicity» in scientific reasoning sometimes stands for a preference for — or an ability only to imagine — linear hierarchical theories, such as the theory that slime mold aggregates because of special pacemaker cells that rule the other cells in the mold.

The team at the Mayo Clinic monitored the heart rate of 30 volunteers with pacemakers as they used different models of cellphone.

The cardiology team performs its 100th lead extraction surgery — a delicate procedure to replace the thin wiring of lifesaving heart devices such as pacemakers or implantable defibrillators.

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.

Just a glimpse of the challenge comes from graduate student Sandra Grijalva's late breaking oral abstract describing «Induced Pacemaker Spheroids as a Model to Reverse - Engineer the Native Sinoatrial Node», which was presented yesterday.

As it turns out, the highest density of VGCCs are found in your nervous system, the pacemaker in your heart and in male testes.

Thanks to advancements in technology and their years of cumulative experience in performing, lecturing and teaching surgical techniques, surgeries such as TPLO, hip replacements, pacemaker implantation, reconstruction of wounds and the curative excision of cancerous tumors are routine procedures.

Located in New York, and as a former patient at the hospital, Cornell's Cardiology Companion Animal services provide, «a number of interventional therapies including, but not limited to, pacemaker implantation, occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus, balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonic and subaortic stenosis, cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.»

Surgical intervention for correction of congenital cardiac defects as well as pacemaker implantation

The electrical impulse begins in a region of specialized «pacemaker» cells within the right atrium known as the sinus node (aka sinoatrial or SA node).

We also offer additional services such as Holter monitor placement and interpretation, pacemaker placement and interrogation, and interventional procedures under the guidance of fluoroscopy.

Although not as new a procedure as the PDA coil occlusion, surgical insertion of a pacemaker can be a panacea for a dog suffering from slow heartbeats.

Our veterinary specialties include MRI, ultrasound, CT and a state - of - the - art interventional radiology unit, facilitating surgical procedures such as the placement of stents and pacemakers.

So I looked further back to see if that kind of correlation was evident, using OHC as the pacemaker.

* the averaging of the temperatures over ten calendar years (like 2001 - 2010) discards all evidence of natural cycles and makes the El Niño disappear as both the main pacemaker and the cause of temperature jumps

Evidently when orbital effects served as a pacemaker, it was by adjusting the timing of greater forces working through their own complex cycles.

Regular variation in the Earth's orbital parameters has been identified as the pacemaker of climate change on the glacial to interglacial time scale (see Berger, 1988 for a review).

But the findings of the Swiss research team, recently published in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering, suggest that it is indeed possible to power pacemakers and other low - power medical implants with solar energy, and could be done with cells measuring as small as 3.6 square centimeters.

According to the research results, the small monocrystalline solar cells (22 % efficiency) used in the study were able to generate «much more» than the typical 5 to 10 microwatts that typical cardiac pacemakers use, as even the lowest power output measured by the devices was an average of 12 microwatts.

As solar cells only generate electricity when exposed to sunlight, a battery (or «accumulator» as the research paper calls it) would still be required for round - the - clock operation of a medical implant, but because regular charging would happen via ambient sunlight, the battery for a solar - powered pacemaker could be much smaller than current options, which also means that the pacemaker itself could be much smaller in sizAs solar cells only generate electricity when exposed to sunlight, a battery (or «accumulator» as the research paper calls it) would still be required for round - the - clock operation of a medical implant, but because regular charging would happen via ambient sunlight, the battery for a solar - powered pacemaker could be much smaller than current options, which also means that the pacemaker itself could be much smaller in sizas the research paper calls it) would still be required for round - the - clock operation of a medical implant, but because regular charging would happen via ambient sunlight, the battery for a solar - powered pacemaker could be much smaller than current options, which also means that the pacemaker itself could be much smaller in size.

# 300,000 for a man who suffered complete heart block, requiring the implantation of a permanent pacemaker, as a consequence of a negligently performed catheter ablation procedure.

General Hospital, an 89 - year - old man died in January 2010 as he recovered from surgery and awaited implantation of a cardiac pacemaker.

Some examples of these defective medical devices include defibrillators or pacemakers, stents, implants, as well as contraceptive devices.

Since a pacemaker installation would qualify as a heart or circulatory surgery, you would definitely need to answer yes to one of those questions if indeed it was within one of those specified time frames.

Various hospitalization benefits such as room boarding expenses, surgeon fees, nursing fees, cost of pacemaker and other expenses are covered.

Our cardiology practice consists of in - office consultation, arrhythmia management with Coumadin clinic, chronic heart failure management; lipid clinic, pacemaker / defibrillator clinic as well as comprehensive non-invasive cardiovascular testing services.