- Industry: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
An area of tissue that has healed after tissue destruction has occurred. It is electrically inactive. Electrically inactive tissue cannot transmit electrical signals.
Industry:Medical devices
The monitoring function of an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator system that allows the device to detect the heart's natural electrical activity.
Industry:Medical devices
The part of an implanted system that detects the body's need for a different heart rate. The system uses sensor information to provide the proper heart rate.
Industry:Medical devices
The muscular wall that separates the left and right sides of the heart.
Industry:Medical devices
A term used to describe abnormalities of the S-A node, the heart's natural pacemaker. These abnormalities may result in slow, fast, and/or irregular heart rates or sinus arrest.
Industry:Medical devices
Episodes of heart damage by a blocked coronary artery, but is so subtle that is goes unnoticed. Silent heart attacks, or silent ischemia, can be detected by ECG and other lab techniques.
Industry:Medical devices
The small area in the right atrium that starts the electrical impulse that is transmitted through the heart, causing it to beat. The S-A node is often called the natural pacemaker of the heart.
Industry:Medical devices
A sterile room much like the cardiac catheterization room where specific procedures are performed, such as angiograms and angioplasty.
Industry:Medical devices
