Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have created the world’s first fullyimplantable micro-pacemaker for unborn children with congenial complete heart blocks. The medical journal, Heart Rhythm, revealed that the US Food & Drug Administration has designated the micro-pacemaker as a device for humanitarian use.
The Times of India reports that the micro-pacemaker has already been through pre-clinical testing by CHLA and the University of Southern California (USC), and they plan to use it in the future. Gerald Loeb, a professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, said, “Building on our experience of using microfabrication techniques to create biomedical devices, we have developed a micro-pacemaker small enough to reside entirely within the fetus. This will allow the foetus to move freely without risk of dislodging the electrodes.”
via Life News
