Similar to a pacemaker, a vagus nerve stimulator is ... thermal ablation is an advanced form of stereotactic radiosurgery that uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to locate the tissue to be ...

Although some studies have demonstrated that, given appropriate precautions, MRI can be safely performed in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...

As pacemaker ... during 3.0T MRI scans in patients implanted with the current MRI-conditional technology. Another aspect of concern is that the first generations of Medtronic MRI-compatible ...

How mission plus performance can lead to sustainable success. [Photos: Shari Fleming Photography/Medtronic; Lance Murphey/Bloomberg via Getty Images] When Geoff ...

When Geoff Martha, chairman and CEO of Medtronic, took over the medical ... The company introduced the first battery-operated pacemaker in 1957 and the first implanted pacemaker a year later.

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

In 1949, US engineer and inventor Earl Bakken founded Medtronic from a garage in Minnesota, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, wearable artificial pacemaker. Today ...

Medtronic has hired a new chief financial officer away from French carmaker Renault. The Dublin-based medical-device maker said Tuesday that Thierry Pieton will take on the CFO role starting March ...

“We got to know Chris well over the last several years as he played a key role in shaping our strategic collaboration with Medtronic. With his extensive experience in global strategy ...

“We got to know Chris well over the last several years as he played a key role in shaping our strategic collaboration with Medtronic ... standard dual-chamber pacemakers designed to ...

"We got to know Chris well over the last several years as he played a key role in shaping our strategic collaboration with Medtronic. With his extensive ... therapy compatible with standard ...