The pacing wire is then connected to an external pacemaker outside the body.

Being treated with (and still requires) an external pacemaker.

External pacemakers deliver much larger charges and do not cause fibrillation, he said.

Sid Yarrow, an engineer on the team, built an early external pacemaker for intra-operative use.

For many years, external pacemakers, which kept patients tethered to large machines, were the main treatment for a condition known as heart block.

The insulated portion of the lamp cord was then threaded through the space between two ribs and attached to the external pacemaker.

To diagnose what was wrong with her heart, he stimulated the ventricles with an external pacemaker, then shut her heart down.

Dr. Zoll went on to develop external pacemakers to restore normal rhythms in patients whose hearts were beating erratically and dangerously.

External pacemaker pulse generators are used temporarily to regulate a patient's heartbeat until a permanent pacemaker can be implanted.

External pacemaker pulse generators are "preamendment" devices, meaning they were on the market prior to the Medical Device Amendments Act of 1976.

The industry suggests that ships carry two cardiac monitors, two portable defibrillators, an electrocardiograph, an external pacemaker, respiratory support equipment and, on new ships, X-ray machines.

In 1958, engineer Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker for a patient of Dr. C. Walton Lillehei.

As for equipment, the survey found that 63 percent of the ships did not have equipment for blood tests for diagnosing heart attacks, and 45 percent did not have mechanical ventilators or external pacemakers.

An external pacemaker was designed and built by the Canadian electrical engineer John Hopps in 1950 based upon observations by cardio-thoracic surgeon Wilfred Gordon Bigelow at Toronto General Hospital .

Some examples of skills include, but not limited to, life support systems normally restricted to the ICU or critical care hospital setting such as mechanical ventilators, Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) and external pacemaker monitoring.

Microshock is a largely theoretical potential risk that is supposedly present for hospital patients with externally protruding intracardiac electrical conductors, such as external pacemaker electrodes, saline filled catheters, or weak or old heart tissue within the heart.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule and draft special controls guidance lowering the risk classification for external pacemaker pulse generators from Class III (high-risk) to Class II (moderate-risk).

The proposed rule and draft special controls guidance do not significantly change the FDA's review of external pacemakers pulse generators, but they do provide manufacturers with clarity and specific guidance on what information is needed in a 510(k) for these products.

External pacemaker pulse generators are one of the 22 remaining Class III preamendment devices that have been regulated through the 510(k) premarket submission program, rather than the premarket approval program required for other Class III devices.

"The FDA has assessed the benefits and risks of external pacemaker pulse generators," said Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

In 1958 Colombian doctor Alberto Vejarano Laverde and Colombian electrical engineer Jorge Reynolds Pombo constructed an external pacemaker, similar to those of Hopps and Zoll, weighing 45 kg and powered by a 12 volt auto battery, but connected to electrodes attached to the heart.