- Industry: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
The heart's natural pacemaker, called the sinoatrial or S-A node, which is located in heart's upper right chamber, the right atrium. Electrical impulses originate in the S-A node, which causes the atria to contract, forcing blood into the heart's lower chambers, the ventricles.
Industry:Medical devices
A pulse generator that paces and senses a single heart chamber, either the right atrium or right ventricle.
Industry:Medical devices
A set of symptoms related to the adverse impact of a loss of A-V synchrony, commonly associated with ventricular pacing. Symptoms include dizziness, faintness or syncope, tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, and neck pulsations known as Cannon waves.
Industry:Medical devices
An external testing and measuring device used during pacemaker implantation to pace the heart and take various measurements from the leads to ensure they are in the correct location and functioning properly.
Industry:Medical devices
Irregular, rapid beating or pulsation of the heart not necessarily an indication that you have an arrhythmia.
Industry:Medical devices
An atrial tachycardia that starts and stops suddenly. The atrial rate may be as fast as 160-220 bpm.
Industry:Medical devices
Pacing leads that use appendages of insulation material, such as tines, at the lead tip. The tines are designed to lodge in the ridges or fibers of muscle that line the inner wall of the heart and secure the lead. See also active-fixation lead.
Industry:Medical devices
