Senning Invents Implanted Heart Pacemaker

Article abstract: Ake Senning’s development of transistor circuitry in 1958 made possible the development of permanently implanted heart pacemakers.

Cardiac Pacing

The fundamentals of cardiac electrophysiology (the electrical activity of the heart) were determined during the eighteenth century; the first successful cardiac resuscitation by electrical stimulation occurred in 1774. The use of artificial pacemakers for resuscitation was demonstrated in 1929 by Mark Lidwell. Lidwell and his coworkers developed a portable apparatus that could be connected...

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