Sizing as small as a nickel, as thin as a pill, this pacemaker used highly progressive technology to become of use cardiac patients. During a trial run, this Medtronic Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) was implanted into a patent by Dr. Charles Gornick at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF).
This device is called the Medtronic Micra TPS, measuring in at one-tenth smaller than the average run-of-the-mill pacemaker. The technicality behind this pacemaker allows it to function sans wires or any other clumsy counterparts. Rather, it is affixed to the heart with small tines for the pacemaker to deliver necessary electrical pulses that use electrodes to pace the heart. Instead of carving out a crevice for the apparatus to sit in, the Medtronic Micra TPS is transmitted into the heart via a catheter that is placed into the femoral vein. No scary surgery is required!
This advanced pacing technology is less invasive than traditional pacemaker options. There is less room for medical complications when patients receive this pacemaker because no chest incisions are being made.
The Medtronic Micra TPS is being investigated further by testing its functionality in 780 patients at 50 international medical facilities. Although this pacemaker isn’t quite like the Wi-Fi device that was invented in 2009, this innovation is still amazingly remarkable. For future applications and installations, receiving a pacemaker like the Medtronic Micra TPS will be simple, painless and noninvasive.
Story via Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
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