pacemaker

A battery change of a pacemaker or an ICD is required every 6 years or so, if not later.

A pacemaker is designed to send a smaller shock in such a way as to stimulate the atria and/or ventricles to depolarize and contract (recreating the normal rhythm).

But a buddy of mine has a pacemaker, and the version he has now allows wireless updates and tuning.

She's never touched a computer in her life, has no electronic gadgets other than a pacemaker.

To be a little more clear pacemaker!= defibrillator, although often they are combined into one device.

You also need to be able to turn of the pacemaker entirely to monitor how the heart operates without stimulation.

As long as they don't have certain metal surgical implants, a pacemaker, or metallic foreign bodies, there is no problem.

As of 2014, deep brain stimulation (DBS, think pacemaker for the brain) is formally recommended in the US for treatment-resistant OCD.

Just noticed one of the infographics mention a pacemaker has on average 0.5-1 million LOC.

Software moves your money, irrigates your crops, drives your car, and runs your pacemaker.

The pacemaker detects that the authors heart has stopped or is in such extreme arrhythmia that he will probably lose consciousness and die.

They do not knock people down and I've never seen anybody ever complain of a pacemaker shock being even detectable.

Pacemaker users stay away so we don't have to get this car medically certified!"-type notices).