Pacemaker, cardiac
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- OBJECT TYPE
- programmable
- DATE
- 1973
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0784.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Cordis
- MODEL
- Omni- Stanicor
- LOCATION
- Miami, Florida, 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
- Brushed silver metal casing has amber-colour synthetic piece mounted on top: silver metal wire covered in opaque synthetic exits pacemaker from this area; metal and synthetic components are visible inside synthetic top.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 6.7 cm
- Width
- 5.8 cm
- Height
- 2.0 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
- Cordis
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Florida
- City
- Miami
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This type of pacemaker developed and used c. 1973. 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 attached lithium pacemaker implanted in 1973. [Ref. 3] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "Omni-Stanicor [registered symbol] [logo]/ Lithium- Powered/ programmable/ R-Wave Inhibited/ Cardiac Pacer/ 190-A/ cordis [registered symbol]/ Miami, Fla., U.S.A." marked on casing; " Not For Human Use" over stamped across printed text. UHN catalogue no. "994.1.14" printed by hand in black ink on casing back. UHN tag tied to pacemaker reads "1st lithium/ pacemaker/implanted in/ 1973" and "994.1.14".
- Missing
- Unknown.
- Finish
- Brushed silver metal casing has amber-colour synthetic piece mounted on top: silver metal wire covered in opaque synthetic exits pacemaker from this area; metal and synthetic components are visible inside synthetic top.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Cordis, Pacemaker, cardiac, 1973, Artifact no. 2002.0784, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0784.001/
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