Abbott's new leadless pacemaker system has become commercially available and has begun being implanted in people at hospitals across the nation. Most people who need a pacemaker require pacing in two chambers of the heart, and the dual-chamber technology in Abbott's new system allows these patients to have a leadless pacemaker.
Ceryx's device, Cysoni, is designed to pace the heart in rhythm with a person's respiration, so that the heart rate and breathing are synced. This is typically the case for a healthy person, but for someone with heart failure, that link becomes severed, CEO Stuart Plant said.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Cybersecurity issues on any device are scary enough. A frightening new report from WhiteScope shows security vulnerabilities in pacemaker systems aren't as rare as one might think.
With the recent development of leadless pacemakers, there is optimism that complication rates may be reduced in patients with implanted pacemakers.
On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model pacemakers (Affinity, Entity, Integrity, Identity, Sustain, Frontier, Victory and Zephyr models) that occasionally dropped their output voltage during surgical electrocautery. (Here’s a publication describing two such cases.) Several issues regarding this advisory letter are troubling. […]
St. Jude Medical (STJ) announced it has acquired Nanostim, Inc., a California-based early-stage medical device company focused on leadless pacemaker technology, for $123.5 million. The startup could stand to gain up to an additional $65 million if it meets certain milestones. This deal culminates a partnership that began on May 3, 2011, when STJ decided […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In a tight vote Tuesday, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration Circulatory Systems Device Advisory Panel recommended Medtronic‘s (MDT) CRT devices are beneficial for biventricular pacing when treating patients with atrioventricular block and left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The vote that the overall benefits outweigh potential risks–four recommend, three no and one abstain–was based on clinical […]
According to Reuters, Barnaby Jack, the director of Embedded Security Research at IOActive, has died in San Francisco. He was to give a talk about the wireless cyber threats surrounding pacemakers and ICDs titled “Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans” at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas next week. From Jack’s summary of the presentation: […]