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... artificial knee joints, bone plates, screws for fracture fixation, cardiac valve prostheses, pacemakers, and artificial hearts ... Implant devices replacing such as : failed hard tissue, artificial hip joints, ...
Neurostimulation
... artificial vision, artificial limbs, and brain-machine interfaces. In the case of neural stimulation, mostly an electrical ... These implantable pacemakers needed a pulse generator to stimulate heart muscles with a certain rate in addition to electrodes ... The pacemaker circuitry includes sense amplifiers to detect the heart's intrinsic electrical signals, which are used to track ... Implantable pacemakers were proposed for the first time in 1959 and became more sophisticated since then. The therapeutic ...
Lists of Canadians
... inventor of the first artificial pacemaker Yvette Bonny (born 1938) - pediatrician Basil Boulton (1938-2008) - pediatrician and ...
Peter Sleight
... with coils aligned on the outside skin of the patient to transfer the electrical charge from the Artificial cardiac pacemaker ... The patient had previously spent many months connected to a filing cabinet size artificial heart machine known as the "fire ... "Treatment of chronic heart block with the Lucas induction coil pacemaker" (PDF). Heart.bmj.com. Retrieved 4 March 2014. " ... Alf Gunning from South Africa performed one of the first pioneering operations to install an external Lucas cardiac pacemaker ...
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow
Index of biomedical engineering articles
Artificial heart valve - Artificial intelligence - Artificial limb - Artificial pacemaker - Automated external defibrillator - ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Artificial heart - ... Diaphragmatic pacemaker - Engineering - Functional electrical stimulation Genetic engineering - Genetic engineering topics - ...
Geoffrey Wickham
... the company was invited to participate in artificial cardiac pacemaker research in which Wickham as head of research and ... particularly in the development of the implantable cardiac pacemaker". Wickham had no formal engineering training, finishing ...
Electrogram
However, electrical recordings made from within the heart such as with an artificial cardiac pacemaker or during an ...
Ada Poon
Her research is focused on discovering ways to extremely miniaturize electronic devices such pacemaker, neuromodulators, and ... artificial pancreas so that they can be seamlessly implanted into patients with minimal invasiveness to provide targeted ...
Bob Anderson
... one of the pioneers of the artificial cardiac pacemaker Bob Anderson (Days of our Lives), a character from Days of our Lives ...
John Hopps
Canadian inventor of the artificial pacemaker John Page Hopps, Unitarian minister and spiritualist This disambiguation page ...
Occipital nerve stimulation
The electrical impulses are generated by a small device called a neurostimulator - similar to an artificial cardiac pacemaker ...
Science and technology in Canada
Other major Canadian scientific contributions include the artificial cardiac pacemaker, mapping the visual cortex, the ...
List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances
Most artificial sweeteners have been discovered when accidentally tasted, including aspartame and saccharin. Ideas include the ... the implantable pacemaker[citation needed], the microwave oven, Scotchgard, Saran wrap, Silly Putty, Slinky, safety glass, ...
Cyber (Marvel Comics)
Agreeing to construct an artificial pacemaker to stabilize Cyber's heart condition in exchange for the use of Logan's ... Gunderson which had a heart condition and needed a pacemaker to keep it stable. Easily being able to battle and best the ... After suffering from a heart attack, he received a "pacemaker", mounted to his chest, fabricated from the deadly, radioactive ... Deceived by Daken's emotional powers, Cyber seemingly succumbs to the poisonous effects of the Carbonadium pacemaker, his ...
Physicians in Canada
... inventor of the first artificial pacemaker Daniel Borsuk OQ (1978- ) - Montreal plastic surgeon, pioneer in facial ...
Arne Larsson
... may refer to: Arne Larsson (patient) (1915-2001), first patient to receive an artificial cardiac pacemaker Arne ...
Harvard Medical School
... of the first implantable cardiac pacemaker Discovering the inheritance of immunity to infection Development of artificial skin ...
Erotic electrostimulation
... and this risk is higher for those who use an artificial pacemaker or similar device or who have heart conditions. Because of ... US patent 4585005, Tom P. Lue, Emil A. Tanagho, and Richard A. Schmidt, "Method and pacemaker for stimulating penile erection ... "Method and pacemaker for stimulating penile erection". Other kinds of apparatus use interferential currents with four surface ...
National Research Council Canada
Some of the many innovations by NRC personnel included the artificial pacemaker, development of canola (rapeseed) in the 1940s ... Divisions of the NRC include: Digital Technologies Artificial intelligence Bioinformatics Blockchain Computer vision and ... Digital Technologies Research Centre - artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, blockchain, computer vision, cybersecurity, ... "feed waste heat and flue gas containing CO2 from industrial exhaust stacks to micro-algae growing in artificial ponds." The " ...
Hyman
... co-inventor of the artificial pacemaker Anthony Hyman (disambiguation), several people Ben Zion Hyman (1891-1984), Canadian- ...
Sven Ivar Seldinger
... insertion of the leads for an artificial pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, and numerous other interventional ...
1924
... inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018) Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007) January ...
Enemy (2021 film)
... but struggles to speak at the gathering and Chozhan immediately senses that her artificial cardiac pacemaker had been tampered ...
Ted Noten
One handbag contains an artificial knee implant, another a medical pace maker, the Back up backpack shows a handgun, and the ...
John Alexander MacWilliam
... such as in the artificial cardiac pacemaker. MacWilliam was appointed Regius Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (later ... Cardiac pacemaker therapy would not become reality in clinical medicine until the 1950s (transthoracic and temporary pacing) ... "artificial excitation" with a series of induction shocks (rather than using constant strong electric currents that could ...
List of Antarctic expeditions
2015-2016 - Luke Robertson (UK) becomes the first Scot - and the first person with an artificial pacemaker - to ski solo, ...
Krusty Gets Busted
... which Krusty could not have done as he is illiterate and has an artificial pacemaker which requires him to avoid microwave ...
Life support
Heart/Lung bypass Urinary catheterization Dialysis Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Defibrillation Artificial pacemaker These ... Because of this, artificial nutrition and hydration can be refused by a patient or their family. A person cannot live without ... In 1990, the US Supreme Court ruled that artificial nutrition and hydration are not different from other life-supporting ...
Pacing
... generally in the sense of artificial methods: Artificial pacemaker, a medical device Transcutaneous pacing, a means of making ...
Electrocardiography
Implantable devices such as the artificial cardiac pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator are capable of ... During each heartbeat, a healthy heart has an orderly progression of depolarization that starts with pacemaker cells in the ... Continuous monitoring can be conducted by using Holter monitors, internal and external defibrillators and pacemakers, and/or ... and the function of implanted pacemakers. The overall goal of performing an ECG is to obtain information about the electrical ...