Safety and reliability head the priority list when designing battery packs into medical devices.
April 5, 2011 - The healthcare industry has been trying to cut the electric cord since the 1950s when Earl Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie invented the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker with an internal battery. Over the ensuing decades, manufacturers have continued to introduce devices—hearing aids, digital thermometers, defibrillators, nerve stimulators, suction pumps, ultrasound equipment, all manner of surgical instruments, and even a new implantable heart-assist pump—that use internal batteries as a power source.
By Riad Nakhleh, Palladium Energy
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