Sentences with phrase «on pacemaker»

he puts you on a pacemaker b / c an engineer has figured out how to stimulate your heart properly.

Dogs must always wear a harness or gentle leader type device to prevent pressure on the pacemaker lead.

Emily will soon be thirteen years old and currently functions 50 % of the time on the pacemaker.

At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions meeting this week, Hee Cheol Cho's lab is presenting three abstracts on pacemaker cells.

Moe has a rare heart condition and relies on a pacemaker — featuring wireless interfaces with network connectivity — to help control every single beat of her heart.

Last year, the U.S. government saw fit to introduce new rules for preventing nefarious attacks on pacemakers.

Not exact matches

«But then on the other hand, I mean, people have been implanting things into their body, like pacemakers and stuff to control your heart,» he said.

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.

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.

VA invented the first implantable cardiac pacemaker; VA created the concept of taking an aspirin a day to ward off heart disease; VA did the first electronic medical record; VA did the first moveable prosthetic device based on implanting a chip in your brain.

After 10 years of working on a surgically implanted pacemaker for the brain (the Neuropace, which is now used to treat epilepsy), they turned their attention to less invasive technology.

All of this likely took its toll on the 85 - year - old, who walks with a cane, has a pacemaker, and has looked increasingly frailer in recent months.

The stress of his wife's death and disappointment over her will took a toll on Johnny, who began to suffer an irregular heartbeat; a pacemaker had to be installed later that year.

Haile Gebrselassie is to be the lead pacemaker for the elite men's race at the Virgin Money London Marathon on April 13.

If they pass a rule on the minimum level of recyclable material in paper packaging or a requirement to stop a car's electrical systems from interfering with pacemakers, they need everyone to follow it so that goods can go between countries without being checked.

New York wants most of the state to be reliant on clean energy in 15 years, and the key to getting it done may lie with the award - winning Long Island researcher who developed the pacemaker battery.

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.

* Update: On April 6 Medtronic announced that its Micra Transcatheter Pacing System had become the first leadless pacemaker to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

Currently, pacemaker batteries last seven years on average, requiring frequent replacements, which may pose patients to a potential risk involved in medical procedures.

Professor Mark Boyett, lead researcher on the study, added: «This is important because although normally a low resting heart rate of an athlete does not cause problems, elderly athletes with a lifelong training history are more likely to need an artificial electronic pacemaker fitted.»

Dr Alicia D'Souza, from The University of Manchester and first author on the paper, said: «The heart rate is set by the heart's pacemaker, but this is controlled by the nervous system.

Dr. Czeisler's laboratory research is focused on understanding the neurobiology of the human circadian pacemaker and its interaction with the sleep homeostat, and on applying that knowledge to clinical medicine and occupational health.

«We have carried out our validation on a commercial sensor, not on a real pacemaker,» said the researcher.

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.

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.

The answer is not yet entirely clear, but there is some evidence that type 1 and type 2 theta depend on different pacemakers.

The American Council on Exercise advises against wave therapy for those who are pregnant, have a history of seizures, blood clotting issues, tumors, or people with pacemakers.

He's also a big, beefy guy, seventy - one years old and working on his second pacemaker battery.

You can now on your BlackBerry Z10 smartphone thanks to Pacemaker.

For starters, Jonas Norberg from Pacemaker showed a video of a new DJ / mixing app for the PlayBook — there was no live demo on hand, but attendees will be able to try the beta tomorrow.

To download and install on your BlackBerry smartphone, you have to spend the Pacemaker Applications that priced at $ 19.50 for the full package version, and $ 5 for a lite version.

Pacemaker is a great app, I have it on my BlackBerry PlayBook.

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«Dogs are now able to get the most up - to - date pacemaker on the market.»

About two permanent pacemaker surgeries are performed each month on dogs at the University of Florida.

This year, Joe became the first dog at AU to receive and thrive on the most advanced pacemaker available to humans.

The use of a temporary lead and / or an external pacemaker is highly advisable in patients who are depended on their escape rhythm.

The external pacemaker was switched on and put on a 100 bpm rate for the next 12 hours.

the first 12 hours post the procedure Artur was kept on a Propofol CRI and with an external pacemaker set at a minimum of 100 bpm rate

The heart is a muscle that depends on electrical signals from a biological «pacemaker» (located in the atria of the heart) to generate the regular and evenly spaced contractions of the chambers of the heart necessary to pump blood with its vital oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.

Depending on your pet's particular problem, cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, pacemaker implantation, and cardiac surgery to repair heart defects have all become relatively commonplace.

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They are implanting pacemakers in dogs, running them on treadmills and performing various tests, including by injecting medications, inducing irregular heartbeats, creating heart attacks and blocking arteries with latex.

The game is available on just about everything now, except maybe your grandmother's pacemaker.

Entitled Water Music, the performance will be created while Young is on a treadmill next to the swimming pool, using his changing heartbeat as the pacemaker.

Her writings have been published in magazines such as Artforum, Art on Paper, Pacemaker and North Drive Press.

I understand that this point is a particular irritant to me and I recognize that I might be a little overboard on it, but it was 30 years after Pacemaker.

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).