Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1.4
Year of the fi rst pacemaker implant
Year of the first
pacemaker implant
1.4
History of Pacing Medical Care
Country
1958
Sweden
Since the beginning of the 1960s, pacing medical care has
developed into one of the biggest and still growing medical
device business. The first implant in a given country (see
Table
1.4
) usually started the pacemaker “rush.”
Surveys of pacing practice suggested that new indications
accounted for one-quarter to one-half of new implants during
the 1970s. Adding new indications for pacemaker implantation
meant that the universe of potential patients expanded [15].
1960
USA, Uruguay, former USSR (Lithuania),
Australia
1961
Germany, Israel, UK
1962
Czechoslovakia, Netherlands
1963
Japan, Poland
