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Medical technology. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. ( CPI ), doing business as Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management, manufactured implantable cardiac rhythm management devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators. It sold microprocessor-controlled insulin pumps and equipment to regulate heart rhythm. It developed therapies to treat irregular heartbeat.
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator ( ICD) or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator ( AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able to perform defibrillation, and depending on the type, cardioversion and pacing of the heart. The ICD is the first-line treatment and prophylactic therapy for patients at risk for sudden ...
An artificial cardiac pacemaker, commonly referred to as simply a pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart. Each pulse causes the targeted chamber (s) to contract and pump blood, [ 3] thus regulating the function of the electrical conduction ...
Fourth-quarter sales at Boston Scientific's cardiovascular unit, which makes devices such as pacemakers and stents, jumped 13.9% to $2.29 billion on a reported basis.
Boston, which generates most of its revenue from sales of heart devices such as pacemakers and stents, will pay $27.50 for each share of Silk Road held, representing a premium of 27% to the stock ...
Boston Scientific was formed June 29, 1979, in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a holding company for the medical products company, Medi-Tech, Inc., and to position the company for growth in interventional medicine. [ 6] Medi-Tech was the brainchild of Itzhak Bentov, a Czech-born émigré to Israel and then to the United States, who worked at the ...
Boston Scientific's device, which it plans to launch in the coming months, is a balloon catheter coated with a drug called paclitaxel and is designed to transfer the drug to the vessel wall to ...
The Guidant logo. Guidant Corporation, part of Boston Scientific and Abbott Labs, designs and manufactures artificial cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, stents, and other cardiovascular medical products. Their company headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana.