Cardiac Surgery
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Medical Contract Manufacturing
Many major companies in the medical business, hire medical contract companies to make important components. Medical contract manufactures make electro-mechanical devices and source, purchase, receive and stock components. These components are assembled and packaged for further use. Medical contract manufacturing also produces reusable devices. These components are sourced, assembled, tested, packaged, sterilized, stocked and shipped by medical c Read More... -
What Is Sudden Cardiac Death?
If you can still remember, three young high profile professional athletes: Reggie Lewis (basketball player), Darryl Kile (baseball pitcher), and Marc Vivien Foe (football player) all died of sudden cardiac death or sudden death due to a fatal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation. Sudden cardiac death is sudden and unexpected with death occurring within minutes after collapse. It is more common to older folks with serious heart ailments a Read More... -
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
While many people might be most familiar with the external defibrillators seen on TV, in emergency rooms or at sporting events, there are similar devices that, although less obvious in their use, serve the same purpose of restoring proper heart rhythms and thus averting possible death by cardiac arrest or heart attack. They are called implantable cardioverter defibrillators but are often referred to as pacemakers. An implantable cardioverter de Read More...
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