such as the Medtronic Micra, which sits in the heart's right ventricle. The challenge with a leadless pacemaker is that it runs out of battery and it's hard to retrieve. A second device is often ...

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Medtronic started about 75 years ago and launched the first battery-operated pacemaker a few years later. It currently generates more than $30 billion in annual sales. That's an impressive history ...

The final episode of The Leaders’ Room’s season two features Robert O’Brien, country leader of Medtronic Ireland.

can cause a rapid battery depletion. However, there is no reason to panic. Medtronic has published a performance note related to a rare mode in the population of its Azure and Astra pacemakers as ...

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 ...

Until a few years ago, being fitted with an implantable pacemaker ... Medtronic's implantable devices communicate with a nearby monitoring station. Still, challenges remain. “Battery technology ...