A short history on pacemakers

Ward, C. F.; Henderson, Susannah; Metcalfe, Neil

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.08.093

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“…Before amplification, the amplifier input signal is modulated by a square-wave signal of frequency that is much higher than the baseband frequencies of interest. The chopping signal may be represented as in (1). The upconverted signal is then amplified and bandpass filtered.…”

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Advances in Microelectronics for Implantable Medical Devices

Demosthenous

2014

Advances in Electronics

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Implantable medical devices provide therapy to treat numerous health conditions as well as monitoring and diagnosis. Over the years, the development of these devices has seen remarkable progress thanks to tremendous advances in microelectronics, electrode technology, packaging and signal processing techniques. Many of today's implantable devices use wireless technology to supply power and provide communication. There are many challenges when creating an implantable device. Issues such as reliable and fast bidirectional data communication, efficient power delivery to the implantable circuits, low noise and low power for the recording part of the system, and delivery of safe stimulation to avoid tissue and electrode damage are some of the challenges faced by the microelectronics circuit designer. This paper provides a review of advances in microelectronics over the last decade or so for implantable medical devices and systems. The focus is on neural recording and stimulation circuits suitable for fabrication in modern silicon process technologies and biotelemetry methods for power and data transfer, with particular emphasis on methods employing radio frequency inductive coupling. The paper concludes by highlighting some of the issues that will drive future research in the field.

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“…The first implantable medical devices were introduced in the late 1950s with the advent of the heart pacemaker [1,2] and subsequently the cochlear implant [3,4]. Both have restored functionality for hundreds of thousands of patients.…”

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Advances in Microelectronics for Implantable Medical Devices

Demosthenous

2014

Advances in Electronics

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“…The evolution of devices in serious cardiac rhythm pathology management has led progressively to the development of devices for the treatment of bradycardia, ventricular arrhythmia and heart failure and for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest leading to delivery of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) plus ICD (CRT-D) and to the recent subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) [23][24][25]. Infectious complications leading also to endocarditis [1,8,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and noninfectious complications [9,21,23,[34][35][36][37] often necessitating removal [1,2,8,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43] affect patients well-being also leading to psychological difficulties increase [44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. In the emerging scenario of concomitant problems and diseases [51][52][53][54][55][56][57]…”

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Pocket infection as a complication of a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Calvagna¹,

Ceresa²,

Patanè³

2014

International Journal of Cardiology

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“…The evolution of devices in serious cardiac rhythm pathology management has led progressively to the development of devices for the treatment of bradycardia, ventricular arrhythmia, and heart failure and for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest leading to the delivery of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) plus ICD (CRT-D) and to the recent subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) [23][24][25]. Infectious complications leading also to endocarditis [1,8,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and non-infectious complications [9,21,23,[34][35][36][37] often necessitating removal [1,2,8,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43] affects patients wellbeing also leading to psychological difficulties increase [23,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. In addition, the improved patients' survival with the burden of concomitant diseases , the progressively younger implanted population and the increase in device and procedure complexity have raised the risk of system component structural failures .…”

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