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A brief history of cardiac pacing
O Aquilina. Images Paediatr Cardiol. 2006 Apr.
Abstract
This article is the first of three articles that will deal with pacing. The history and background leading to pacemakers as we know them is briefly discussed.
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Hippocrates (460 - 375 BC)
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Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
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Electric Rays
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Geronimo Mercuriale (1530 - 1606)
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William Harvey and the circulation
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A pulse diagram by Valentini
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Stimulation device (1788)
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Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798)
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Galvani's electrostatic nerve stimulator
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Galvani's forceps
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Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827)
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The Volta Pile
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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1701 - 1802)
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Aldini (1762 - 1834)
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Hugo Von Ziemssen (1829 - 1902)
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Catharina Serafin
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Catharina's cardiac activity
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John Mac William
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682 - 1771)
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William Stokes (1804 - 1878)
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Karel Frederik Wenckebach
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John Hay
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Augustus Desire Waller
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Lippmann
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Lippmann's electrometer
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Waller's recording setup
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First ECG
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Early Waller ECG's and apparatus
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Jimmie with its proud owner
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From the records of the House of Commons
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Willem Einthoven (1860 – 1927)
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Early Einthoven ECG's
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The String Galvanometer
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Einthoven's recording schema
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Einthoven's lab setup with the string galvanometer (two views)
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Einthoven's lab and colleagues
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Early ECG recording technique
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Early Einthoven ECG
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Early ECG machine
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Albert Hyman's “artificial pacemaker”: the two photos
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Hyman's device in a box
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Hyman's electrodes
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Flow diagram of Hyman's “artificial pacemaker”
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Hyman's recordings
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The Hymanotor (Adlanco)
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Wilfred Bigelow
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The Grass stimulator
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John Hopps
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Early external electronic pacemakers
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Paul Zoll and a colleague
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Zoll's external pacemaker
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The PM-65: historic 1958 photo (patient was using the first catheter electrode)
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Early Zoll paced ECG tracings
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Aubrey Leatham
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Earl Bakken
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Medtronic's first building
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Bakken's first lab
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Walton Lillehei
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Myocardial pacing wire and indifferent electrode
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Bakken's circuit
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Bakken's pacemaker with leads
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One of the “first ten”
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Product literature of the “first ten”
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Wearable devices on patients (1958)
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Lillehei with a child being paced
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Lillehei's paper
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Senning's and Elmqvist's paper
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Ake Senning
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Rune Elmqvist
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Arne Larsson
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Elmqvist's circuit
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Mercury Cell
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First implanted pacemaker
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Kiwi Shoe Polish
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Modern replica of Elmqvist's pacemaker
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X-ray of Larsson showing pacemaker and leads
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Elmqvist, Senning and Larsson (left to right)
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Wilson Greatbatch and his circuit
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The “Bow Tie Team”
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Patient with Greatbatch's pacemaker
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Lithium-Iodine Cell
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Inductively-coupled pacing
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External coil and device for inductive device
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Warren Mauston, the first recipient of the Hunter-Roth electrode
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Hunter-Roth electrodes
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Elema lead
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The Elema 135
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The Elema 142 (with non-rechargable cells)
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Zoll device
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Devices of the 60's
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Devices of the 70's
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Modern lithium pacemaker cell
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Nuclear pacemakers with projected longevity
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Devices of the 80's
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Devices of the 90's
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Contemporary devices
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Home monitoring via the World Wide Web
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History of pacing
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The “star” of pacing: the first transistor
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