Tiny Pacemaker Can Be Installed Via Catheter 57
the_newsbeagle writes "About four million people around the world have pacemakers implanted in their bodies, and those devices all got there the same way: surgeons sliced open their patients' shoulders and inserted the pulse-generating devices in the flesh near the heart, then attached tiny wires to the heart muscle. ... A device that just received approval in the EU seems to solve those problems. This tiny pacemaker is the first that doesn't require wires to bring the electrical signal to the heart muscle, because it's implanted inside the heart itself, and is hooked onto the inner wall of one of the heart's chambers. This is possible because the cylindrical device can be inserted and attached using a steerable catheter that's snaked up through the femoral artery."
This is exciting.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What if it gets loose? (Score:4, Insightful)
Considering it went through a medical approval process I bet all failure modes have been looked at. Just because an article does not enumerate every test done does not mean that they have not been done.