Development Year: 1963 Inventor: Paul Winchell Description: An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a deceased genetically engineered …
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Defibrillator
Development Year: 1947 Inventor: Claude Beck Description: A defibrillator treats life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias by delivering a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart. The use of a defibrillator is often an important step in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an algorithm-based intervention aimed to restore cardiac and pulmonary function. Functionality: The defibrillator passes a …
Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker
Development Year: 1958 Inventor: Rune Elmqvist Description: An artificial cardiac pacemaker (generally referred to as just a pacemaker) is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart, the upper atria or lower ventricles. Each pulse causes the targeted chamber(s) to contract and …