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ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)

ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)

1906 – 1996

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1960 CE

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An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.

ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)
ELMQVIST, Rune (1906 – 1996)
SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)
SENNING, Åke (1915 – 2000)

"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…