Pacemaker, cardiac
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- OBJECT TYPE
- transthoracic/Chardack Greatbatch
- DATE
- 1963
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0783.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Medtronic
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Cream-colour synthetic disc; 3 silver metal wires encased in transparent synthetic.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.0 cm
- Width
- 7.3 cm
- Height
- 2.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Medtronic
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Minnesota
- City
- Minneapolis
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This type of pacemaker developed and used c. 1963. This example never used.
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
First transthoracic pacemaker implant, 1963. [Ref. 3] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "CHARDACK - GREATBATCH/ PACEMAKER/ MFGD BY/ MEDTRONIC/ MPLS. MINN. USA." cast in raised print on casing. UHN tag tied to pacemaker reads " 1st transthoracic/ pacemaker/ implanted 1963" on front; "994.1.13" printed on reverse.
- Missing
- Unknown.
- Finish
- Cream-colour synthetic disc; 3 silver metal wires encased in transparent synthetic.
- Decoration
- N/A
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