Author: Seymour Furman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Principles and Techniques of Cardiac Pacing
Author: Seymour Furman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Machines in Our Hearts
Author: Kirk Jeffrey
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801876168
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices. Numerous small manufacturing firms jumped into pacemaker production but eventually fell by the wayside, leaving only three American companies in the business today. Jeffrey profiles pioneering heart surgeons, inventors from the realms of engineering and medical research, and business leaders who built heart-rhythm management into an industry with thousands of employees and annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801876168
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices. Numerous small manufacturing firms jumped into pacemaker production but eventually fell by the wayside, leaving only three American companies in the business today. Jeffrey profiles pioneering heart surgeons, inventors from the realms of engineering and medical research, and business leaders who built heart-rhythm management into an industry with thousands of employees and annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
National Library of Medicine Audiovisuals Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Technology and Culture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description