Tag: Pacemaker
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Earl Bakken: Pacemaker pioneer and founder of Medtronic
Ahmed NadeemChicago, Illinois, United States Earl Bakken was an electrical engineer who developed the external, battery-operated, wearable pacemaker. He was born in Minnesota in 1924 and received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. In 1949, he founded a company called Medtronic with his brother-in-law,…
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Preparing for the unexpected
Anthony PapagiannisThessaloniki, Greece Working in specialist medical practice one is familiar with the spectrum of clinical problems likely to appear in one’s regular professional menu. However, it is common knowledge that unexpected situations do occur: the human body and being is complex and unpredictable, organ systems work interdependently and not in isolation, and we must…
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I sing the battery electric
Victoria CrawfordChiang Mai, Thailand One, two nights there came an odd flutterwhen half asleep, half awake, on my left side,as slight as a moth’s wings might stutter,a beat— lopsided, not to be denied. My five year old maker unpaced me,potholed cadences , the rhythm of my life:five years for the electric battery,four or five for me…