The First Pacemaker

@article{Mond1982TheFP,
  title={The First Pacemaker},
  author={Harry G. Mond and Jeffrey Sloman and Roger Harry Edwards},
  journal={Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology},
  year={1982},
  volume={5}
}
Although Dr. Albert Hyman has been generally acknowledged as the originator of the artificial cardiac pacemaker, he nevertheless refers to an earlier worker in Australia named "Gould" wbo developed, successfully used, and puhlished information on a similar piece of apparatus at least three years earlier.' On page 287 of Hyman's classic 1932 article he discusses the results of other workers attempting to resuscitate the dead heart using electrical currents.' 
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The sophistication of modern designs, together with the introduction of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, has broadened the indications for the implantation of cardiac pacemakers, making them serious competitors to drug therapies for most of the aforementioned conditions. Expand
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Whether new generations of electronic pacemakers will erase lingering concerns with regard to electronic pacing or whether biologicals will ultimately supplement or supplant electronics remains to be seen. Expand
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