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Description: | This cardiac pacemaker was donated to the museum collections in 2007 by Dr Pat Mortimer, a former doctor at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. Today, pacemakers are small sophisticated electronic devices which are easily implanted and use electrical impulses to regulate a patient's slow or abnormal heartbeat. Early pacemakers such as this however, were considerably more bulky and cumbersome and the process of implantation involved an intrusive operation in the chest cavity. This programmable pacemaker was produced by American manufacturer Cordis during the 1960s. The core components are visible through the transparent casing. These include the batteries which were used to store enough energy to stimulate the heart with a jolt of electricity, and a motherboard which contains all the electrical circuitry of the pacemaker. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Enfield Museum Service | Rights holder: | Enfield Museum Service | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1960s | Source: | Enfield Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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